commit c4d3b16e79ca05bafe15dd93c71b156de1154428
parent 218f2ca67c966ee6193fd3aafb2e280194a46ce6
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 23:19:36 +0200
mention KYC explicitly
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git 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.
