[Cryptography] Anonymous rendezvous (was Business opportunities in crypto)

[jrzx]

On 2021-04-18 04:23, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> We want to use it to support systems that (a) are "strongly distributed" - "strongly"
> because we want to assume *no* connections between participants except those
> explicitly desired; (b) no trusted third parties. It's from (a) that we get the whol
> notion of anonymous rendezvous: Any two parties can engage in truste
> communication of a set of messages with each other without any communication
> outside of those messages. What I contend - and I believe you agree - is that
> requirement cannot be met. And it cannot be met, not because of weaknesses in
> the cryptography, but because it simply makes no sense.

Suppose we have a bunch of strongly pseudonymous *public* forums. (Zooko names,
or bitmessage type names.)

Better, suppose we have a strongly pseudonymous crypto currency and/or lighting
network, and a bunch of strongly pseudonymous businesses, many of whose
employees and contractors are strongly pseudonymous.

*Now* does it make sense?

Now it makes sense.
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