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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blitcoin? (Black Hat 2011)
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:38:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108041038.47396.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNQ0svWgFwZrra0gQFpxNLOPXk4RbKygeMUNPEA=k-Wqwa-ZA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:56:42 AM John Smith wrote:
> L.S.
> 
> Some bitcoin "security vulnerabilities" have been discussed by Dan Kaminsky
> at BH 2011, there is one article about this dated yesterday:
> 
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240039221/Black-Hat-2011-Dan-Kam
> insky-reveals-network-security-research-topics
> 
> The article is very unspecific though. They talk about a tool called
> "blitcoin" that "unmasks" both sides of a bitcoin transaction. A google
> search also turned up nothing, except some misspellings.

Well, that certainly doesn't sound like a security vulnerability at all.
It's by design that everyone knows about every transaction.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-04 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04 10:56 John Smith
2011-08-04 14:14 ` Matt Corallo
2011-08-04 14:38 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2011-08-05  1:16   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-08-05  5:37     ` John Smith
2011-08-05  5:52       ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-05 12:01         ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-08-05 12:58           ` Christian Decker
2011-08-05 13:11             ` John Smith
2011-08-05  5:55       ` John Smith
2011-08-05 13:07     ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-05 13:19       ` John Smith

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