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What is the anonymity set for a participant? #211

Open dbosk opened 4 years ago

dbosk commented 4 years ago

the paper also postulates a sybil-proof anonymous credential system. While the proposed approach achieves non-linkability across different crowd event, the anonymity set for any participant who contributes to the count is limited to the set of all those who have
obtained these credentials. In other words, in order to achieve meaningful privacy for the proposed use case, these credentials need to not just widely available, but also widely issued. That seems like a huge step to simply assume.

Emphasize the wide deployment of BankID in Sweden further.