aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/paper/taler.tex
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2017-05-19 23:19:36 +0200
committerChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2017-05-19 23:19:36 +0200
commitc4d3b16e79ca05bafe15dd93c71b156de1154428 (patch)
tree81d828c5042365358ff7c9226e8be18ff5eff17e /doc/paper/taler.tex
parent218f2ca67c966ee6193fd3aafb2e280194a46ce6 (diff)
mention KYC explicitly
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/paper/taler.tex')
-rw-r--r--doc/paper/taler.tex4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex
index c6a699e8d..4a9299a62 100644
--- a/doc/paper/taler.tex
+++ b/doc/paper/taler.tex
@@ -654,8 +654,8 @@ transfer that funds the customer's withdrawal of anonymous digital coins.
We believe this may even be desirable as there are laws, or bank policies,
that limit the amount of cash that an individual customer can withdraw
in a given time period~\cite{france2015cash,greece2015cash}.
-Taler is thus only anonymous with respect to {\em payments}.
-In particular, the exchange
+Taler is thus only anonymous with respect to {\em payments}. So
+while the exchange does know their customer (KYC), it
is unable to link the known identity of the customer that withdrew
anonymous digital coins to the {\em purchase} performed later at the
merchant.