cryptography each certificate of validation might contain an hash of message 3 the third party then sends the unique certificates of validation to the t parties in t sixth messages 6 importantly the third party uses the return information contained in each of the t selected third messages rather than the return information associated to messages 1 or 5 importantly the third party waited to receive t messages 5 before creating the certificates of validity for the information it had deemed valid 7 upon reception of the certificates of validation each sending party can now create the seventh and final message to be sent u201c anonymously u201d to the final recipient each seventh message contains the information originally contained in the third message and the associated certificates of validation u201c anonymously u201d means that the party receiving the message will know that the sending party of that message is an eligible sender and that the information is validated however the recipient will be unable to link a specific certificate of validation to a specific certificate of eligibility so for example in a payment application the merchant might receive a message containing payment tokens the u201c validated u201d information but will be unable to link them to the credit card information that the sender passed to the third party in order to receive the tokens the u201c eligibility u201d certificate in a voting.