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diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex index 68b26913..76bceca2 100644 --- a/doc/paper/taler.tex +++ b/doc/paper/taler.tex @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ the refresh protocol from being used to transfer ownership. \def\KDF{\textrm{KDF}} \def\FDH{\textrm{FDH}} -% In this section, we describe the protocols for Taler in detail. +In this section, we describe the protocols for Taler in detail. For the sake of brevity we omit explicitly saying each time that a recipient of a signed message always first checks that the signature @@ -903,12 +903,11 @@ following interaction with the exchange: \subsection{Exact and partial spending} A customer can spend coins at a merchant, under the condition that the -merchant trusts the exchange that issued the coin. -% FIXME: Auditor here? +merchant trusts the exchange that issued the coin, usually because +the exchange is audited by an auditor that is trusted by the merchant. Merchants are identified by their public key $M_p$ which the customer's wallet learns through the merchant's Web page, which itself should be authenticated with X.509c. -% FIXME: Is this correct? We now describe the protocol between the customer, merchant, and exchange for a transaction in which the customer spends a coin $C := (c_s, C_p)$ |