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Privacy and anonymity are not opposites, you can establish anonymously an encrypted session which gives you both. However, privacy is often paired with authent
by jarfil 8y ago
Privacy and anonymity are not opposites, you can establish anonymously an encrypted session which gives you both.
However, privacy is often paired with authentication, which is the opposite of anonymity.
- dogma1138 8y agoIf you establish the session anonymously it cannot be private as you have no idea who you are talking too. Keep in mind that anonymity isn’t Eve not knowing that Alice is talking to Bob but that Alice doesn’t know that it’s Bob who is talking to her regardless of what Eve knows.
- jarfil 8y agoIf Alice only knows that Bob is the same one who talked to her a second ago, that on itself doesn't break the anonymity of not knowing which one of 7.5 billion people is Bob. It only becomes a problem if Alice can cross-reference that with some other data to narrow down Bob's identity.
- dogma1138 8y agoAnonymity is when Bob wants to talk to Alice in a way she can’t know it’s Bob who is talking to her. If Bob wants to talk to Alice (regardless if it’s anonymous or not) but he doesn’t want Eve to know it’s a privacy issue. Anonymity applies from the perspective and intention of the sender.
- TrappedInVR 8y agoThe only balance that might be had between Privacy and Anonymity is the concept of Pseudonymity. Pseudonymity is similar to what you have here or on reddit. I don't know who you are or anything about you, but I can know information about dogma1138. Pseudonymity is creating an identity that then holds its own reputation.