On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote: > On 19 August 2014 19:40:39 GMT-04:00, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@bitpay.com> wrote: >>Encryption is of little value if you may deduce the same information >>by observing packet sizes and timings. > > That is simply incorrect. The resources required to do that kind of > monitoring are very high; even the NSA can't pull it off consistently for
Hardly. For example, when a new block arrives on the network, a single observer at a single location may obtain a binary "likely|not bitcoin protocol" decision from a spike in usage correlated with sudden, global network activity after a period of inactivity. I'll not detail all such metrics. -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
