On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > they can hire a hacker who will > find a misplaced (} in your crypto code, and all the work you did to > encrypt wire protocols becomes silently worthless. > Not to mention encrypting basically non-sensitive inter-node traffic is almost completely worthless in providing anonymity anyway... Seriously, I have not heard a strong justification for this proposal yet. I have heard some people talking about Tor-ifying communications, but that is a completely different issue and should not be confused with just "encrypting bitcoin messages".