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Anonymous electronic cash systems can be vulnerable to criminal abuse. Two approaches were suggested for solving this problem. In an escrowed cash system users are given anonymity which can be lifted by trustees. In an amount-limited system each user enjoys unconditional anonymity but only for payments up to a limited amount during a given time-frame. In this paper we discuss the two approaches.
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Sander, T., Ta-Shma, A. (1999). On Anonymous Electronic Cash and Crime. In: Information Security. ISW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47790-X_17
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