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Multiple Token Transactions

To pay for items of arbitrary values, we may need to combine several tokens in a single transaction. In this case 2 must contain the various tokens, and be signed with all keys associated with those tokens. Let tex2html_wrap_inline1046 be a list of tokens (possibly of different brands) tex2html_wrap_inline1048 and let tex2html_wrap_inline1050 be the list of corresponding private halves tex2html_wrap_inline1052 . We extend the subscript notation to vectors to indicate signing the plaintext with each private key in the vector. The new 1 step would then be

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Multiple token transactions combine well with the use of one key for many tokens as discussed above, since this might reduce the number of signatures needed.



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