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Re: BitLaundry re-opens with exciting new security features you can't see!
by
realnowhereman
on 30/07/2011, 09:11:46 UTC
Mike,
I just listened to your interview on AgoristRadio, which was fun. A question for you:  something that would be useful--nay, essential--in a laundering service is the assurance that one will receive new coins and not receive back any of the same coins of the original lot.

Actually I think it would be unwise to put that condition on a mixer.

It reminds me of the method eventually used to break the enigma machines.  The breakers worked out that the enigma machine would never encode a letter to itself.  That gave them enough of a statistical hole that they could begin breaking.

In the same way, one could simply look at which output coins a person received that contained none of a particular input and voila, the connection is made from input to output.

The correct solution is that coins are completely randomly mixed.