Re: [Taler] minor changes

[Fabian Kirsch]

Hi Jeff,

are you afraid of timing attacks uncovering the customer coin relation?

Thinking of kinda MailMix.
Let the Mint wait for N blind signings in the queue,
then serving them at the same time.

greetings Fabian

Am 13.10.2015 um 18:48 schrieb Jeff Burdges:
> Just some thoughts :
>
> In practice, we'll probably want longer randomized delays before coin
> withdraw transactions have officially cleared.   We do not want
> customers spending their coins instantly even if they withdraw
> instantly.  I suppose this leaves more leeway for the mint to be a bit
> slow, not sure if that matters, but presumably the timeouts in the
> paper could be increased.
>
> I didn't change section 4 nearly as much as I expected.  Initially, I'd
> wanted to make the coin language more consistent and more clearly
> distinguish preparatory stages from the actual protocol, but I did
> neither in the end.  Both might still be a good move.