---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:28:57 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Market for Secrets (was Re: First Monday August 2001) At 7:46 PM -0500 8/6/01, Edward J. Valauskas wrote: > A Market for Secrets > by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman > http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/adar/ > Abstract: We propose an electronic market system for private data that >guarantees levels of privacy, anonymity and control to individuals while >maintaining the ability of other entities to mine their information and >automatically pay individuals for their data. We also describe a novel >procedure that allows data miners to anonymously contact the creators of >the information in case their profiles are needed for future research. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]