From: Natanael <natanael.l@gmail•com>
To: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@electrum•org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:04:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAt2M1-wf53=qUM+Q=1YrkEz+WT5PnZsobfzdNENtV5dN7847w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55AFBBE6.3060702@electrum.org>
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- Sent from my tablet
Den 22 jul 2015 17:51 skrev "Thomas Voegtlin via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>:
>
> Hello,
>
> Although Electrum clients connect to several servers in order to fetch
> block headers, they typically request address balances and address
> histories from a single server. This means that the chosen server knows
> that a given set of addresses belong to the same wallet. That is true
> even if Electrum is used over TOR.
>
> There have been various proposals to improve on that, but none of them
> really convinced me so far. One recurrent proposal has been to create
> subsets of wallet addresses, and to send them to separate servers. In my
> opinion, this does not really improve anonymity, because it requires
> trusting more servers.
>
> Here is an idea, inspired by TOR, on which I would like to have some
> feedback: We create an anonymous routing layer between Electrum servers
> and clients.
Why not look at something like Dissent? http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/
This protocol reduces the impact of Sybil attacks.
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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 [this message]
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
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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