[Cryptography] Krugman blockchain currency skepticism

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Aug 7 23:45:07 EDT 2018


>>> On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 14:11 +0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>>>> The downside of Chaumian e-cash is very simple.  You need a single
>>>> centralized trusted server holding a small number unshared secrets.

On 07/08/2018 04:11, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
>>> Not true, you can create a threshold scheme if you wanted to do so.

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 07:08:27AM +0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>> Threshold cryptography neither scales nor helps.

On 08/08/2018 07:21, Alfie John wrote:
> I beg to differ:
> 
>      https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/199
> 
> Honey Badger is a BFT protocol that relies on Threshold Cryptography

Not Chaumian.



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