<div dir="ltr"><div>On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:38 AM John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In article <<a href="mailto:d94ca16f-a556-f20e-4f68-2dc46307b236@echeque.com" target="_blank">d94ca16f-a556-f20e-4f68-2dc46307b236@echeque.com</a>> you write:<br>
>Chaum is doing his own blockchain company:  Elixxir<br>
><br>
>Supposedly it will make everything wonderful, but how it is going to <br>
>make everything wonderful is not altogether clear to me.  Does he <br>
>actually explain the proposed technology in detail anywhere?<br>
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There's a 20 page white paper on their web site:<br>
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<a href="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4816439/Elixxir_Technical_Brief.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4816439/Elixxir_Technical_Brief.pdf</a><br>
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My crypto fu isn't good enough to know if there are glaring holes in<br>
the design.  Since it's Chaum I presume he knows what he's doing, but<br>
there's a fair amount of hand waving in the white paper.<br>
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