Re: anonymity +- credentials

2003-10-08 Thread Ian Grigg
Anton Stiglic wrote: - Original Message - From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] In terms of actual practical systems, ones that implement to Brands' level don't exist, as far as I know? There were however several projects that implemented and tested the credentials

Re: anonymity +- credentials

2003-10-07 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] In terms of actual practical systems, ones that implement to Brands' level don't exist, as far as I know? There were however several projects that implemented and tested the credentials system. There was CAFE, an

Re: anonymity +- credentials

2003-10-06 Thread Ian Grigg
Anton Stiglic wrote: We need a practical system for anonymous/pseudonymous credentials. Can somebody tell us, what's the state of the art? What's currently deployed? What's on the drawing boards? The state of the art, AFAIK, is Chaum's credential system. The state of the art is

anonymity +- credentials

2003-10-03 Thread John S. Denker
On 10/03/2003 01:26 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote: It seems to me that perfect pseudonymity *is* anonymity. They're not quite the same thing; see below. Frankly, without the ability to monitor reputation, you don't have ways of controlling things like transactions, for instance. It's just that