commit b342b141ef6085310551541635434f8979e46019
parent 89d8696886211c06a40904af25c963ed09cfd0dc
Author: Jeff Burdges <burdges@gnunet.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:37:00 +0100
Do not start sentense with lowercase k
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex
@@ -277,19 +277,20 @@ Chaum's original digital cash system~\cite{chaum1983blind} was
extended by Brands~\cite{brands1993efficient} with the ability to {\em
divide} coins and thus spend certain fractions of a coin using
restrictive blind signatures. Restrictive blind signatures create
-privacy risks: if a transaction is interrupted, then any coins sent to
-the merchant become tainted, but may never arrive or be spent. It
-becomes tricky to extract the value of the tainted coins without
+privacy risks: if a transaction is interrupted, then any coins sent
+to the merchant become tainted, but may never arrive or be spent.
+It becomes tricky to extract the value of the tainted coins without
linking to the aborted transaction and risking deanonymization.
Ian Goldberg's HINDE system allowed the merchant to provide change,
but the mechanism could be abused to hide income from
taxation.\footnote{Description based on personal communication. HINDE
- was never published.} $k$-show
-signatures~\cite{brands1993efficient} were proposed to achieve
-divisibility for coins. However, with $k$-show signatures multiple
-transactions can be linked to each other. Performing fractional
-payments using $k$-show signatures is also rather expensive.
+ was never published.}
+In \cite{brands1993efficient}, $k$-show signatures were proposed to
+achieve divisibility for coins. However, with $k$-show signatures
+multiple transactions can be linked to each other.
+Performing fractional payments using $k$-show signatures is also
+rather expensive.
%
%Some argue that the focus on technically perfect but overwhelmingly
