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Re: BitLaundry re-opens with exciting new security features you can't see!
by
lettucebee
on 30/07/2011, 12:45:06 UTC


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.


You seem to describe a service where I would deposit coins, check to see that none of the original came back.  If they did, I deposit them again later after the service has recharged a little, check again.  Meanwhile I'm paying commissions each time.  This would be a nuisance.