On blind signatures and perfect crimes
Computers and Security
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
Communications of the ACM
The disadvantages of free MIX routes and how to overcome them
International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability
Anonymous Communication and Anonymous Cash
CRYPTO '96 Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Mini-Cash: A Minimalistic Approach to E-Commerce
PKC '99 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
Probabilistic Analysis of Anonymity
CSFW '02 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE workshop on Computer Security Foundations
Countermeasures against Government-Scale Monetary Forgery
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
mFerio: the design and evaluation of a peer-to-peer mobile payment system
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
CIT'09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Communications and information technology
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In this paper we analyze the anonymity of banknote based payments. We show how to model intermediary-chains and present statistical methods that can be used by banks to extract information on the length of the chain from deposited banknotes. If the bank has discovered a chain of length zero, the anonymity of the payment is immediately revoked. To protect against such deanonymizations, customers have to be very careful when spending banknotes.