Re: [Taler] minor changes

[Christian Grothoff]

Jeff, we expect to get "random" delays because the wallets will withdraw
(likely in the background!) and the coins will remain for some 'random'
time in the wallet before being spent.  Making the mint slow would be
horrible for various reasons, but most importantly not help as without a
wallet-side delay, the mint can still link the transactions.

On 10/13/2015 06:48 PM, Jeff Burdges wrote:
> 
> 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.
>

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