From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:51:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140823225138.GB18381@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201408231902.57017.luke@dashjr.org>
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 07:02:55PM +0000, Luke Dashjr wrote:
> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 6:44:15 PM Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > Not to mention encrypting basically non-sensitive inter-node traffic is
> > > almost completely worthless in providing anonymity anyway...
> >
> > Recall that P2P connections carry Bloom filters too, which are not public
> > information.
>
> As soon as you tell it to an unknown/public peer, it is public information.
Mike is correct here: It *might* be public information, and probably
won't be. We already can give weak assurance that it probably won't be
against many weaker attackers, simply because getting lots of IP
addresses is moderately expensive, and in the future additional methods
will be developed and deployed.
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2014-08-19 9:49 ` Raúl Martínez
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2014-08-19 15:11 ` Raúl Martínez
2014-08-19 15:30 ` Richard Moore
2014-08-19 16:07 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-19 16:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 16:58 ` Angel Leon
2014-08-19 17:19 ` Christophe Biocca
2014-08-19 17:35 ` Johnathan Corgan
2014-08-19 23:38 ` J Ross Nicoll
2014-08-19 23:39 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-19 23:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 23:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20 0:16 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20 0:41 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:59 ` William Yager
2014-08-20 1:14 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 1:19 ` William Yager
2014-08-20 1:27 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:49 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-20 0:57 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-23 16:17 ` xor
2014-08-23 16:50 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-23 17:50 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 18:22 ` William Yager
2014-08-23 18:44 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 19:02 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-23 22:51 ` Peter Todd [this message]
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2014-08-20 3:23 ` Un Ix
2014-08-20 5:40 ` Cameron Garnham
2014-08-20 14:37 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 6:39 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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