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diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex index c1b38ae12..d59cf47fb 100644 --- a/doc/paper/taler.tex +++ b/doc/paper/taler.tex @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ such as the MasterCard and VisaCard credit card schemes and computerized bank transactions such as SWIFT. These systems enable mass surveillance by both governments and private companies. Aspects of this surveillance sometimes benefit society by providing information about tax evasion or -crimes like extortion. % TODO : anti-money laundering later? +crimes like extortion. In particular, bribery and corruption are limited to elites who can afford to escape the dragnet. % @@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ activity, and this limits the ability of the state to shape the society. As bribery is virtually impossible to detect, corruption is widespread and not limited to social elites. % -Zerocash~\cite{zerocash} is an example for translating an -anarchistic economy into the digital realm. +% SHORTER: Zerocash need not be mentioned so early? +% Zerocash~\cite{zerocash} is an example for translating an +% anarchistic economy into the digital realm. This paper describes Taler, a simple and practical payment system for a social-liberal society, which is underserved by @@ -310,6 +311,8 @@ would be to add partial spending and a form of Taler's refresh protocol. At present, we feel these relatively new cryptographic techniques incur unacceptable financial risks to the exchange, due to underdeveloped implementation practice. +% SHORTER: Maybe some of the abbove could be thinned since +% they do not know much about Taler's refresh protcol yet. In this vein, there are pure also zero-knoledge proof based schemes like \cite{ST99}, and subsequently Zerocash~\cite{zerocash}, and maybe |