BTW, did anyone notice
that the Zercoin anonymity extension was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and the Air Force Research Laboratory ?
Acknowledgements. We thank Stephen Checkoway, George
Danezis, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful
comments. The research in this paper was supported in part
by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-11-
1-0470, and DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL) under contract FA8750-11-2-0211.
Interesting ...