Security without identification: transaction systems to make big brother obsolete

1985/10/01 by David Chaum · 1,662 citations
Computer Science · #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Brother #Computer science #Computer security #Cryptography and Data Security #Database #Database transaction #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #Identification (biology) #Internet privacy #Law #Political science #Scale (ratio) #Transaction processing #Transaction processing system

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/4372.4373

published in Communications of the ACM 28(10), 1030-1044 (Association for Computing Machinery)

openalex publication_date 1985/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

The large-scale automated transaction systems of the near future can be designed to protect the privacy and maintain the security of both individuals and organizations.

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