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From: Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris•com>
To: "Joseph Gleason ⑈" <fireduck@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:18:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+w+GKSBN6P7k1iGWONc2D9d+CQL4PWcDZ6EkqW9mkZUDNAVcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ASnrG_sNRio03pr_F6vSepucG66=R+n_x7xREYqKPXOo9hyw@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> One solution would be for the client to combine all the addresses they are
> interested in into a single bloom filter and send that to the server.
>

<snip extra ideas>

Hey Joseph,

All those ideas are ones we had years ago and they are implemented in the
current Bitcoin protocol.

The trick, as you may know, is this bit:

The client would also need to be fairly clever
>

It turns out making a sufficiently clever client to fool even advanced
observers is a lot of programming work, assuming you wish for the Ultimate
Solution which lets you allocate a desired quantity of bandwidth and then
use it to maximize privacy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 15:51 Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-22 16:04 ` Natanael
2015-07-22 16:30 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-22 22:20   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-22 23:07     ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-07-22 16:41 ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-07-22 21:18   ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2015-07-22 23:11 ` gb
2015-07-23  0:07   ` Eric Voskuil
     [not found]   ` <114b2a76-ebc7-461a-b4bc-10873574d6c4@HUB2.rwth-ad.de>
2015-07-23 12:23     ` Stefan Richter
2015-07-24  2:26       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-24  3:42         ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24  4:44           ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-24  9:38             ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 11:12 ` s7r
2015-07-24 21:20   ` Slurms MacKenzie

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