I've thought about [ab]using Tor as a STUN replacement before, but the
issue is a lot of people don't have computers that are switched on all the
time anymore except for their smartphones, which are too weak to calculate
the UTXO set. The trend has been for a while towards laptops, phones and
table
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> I think we need to provide users with better options than that.
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Perfect privacy without extraordinary computational overhead today means
downloading everything. But we could provide better tools to *shift* bandwidth
requirements rather than try to reduce them.
I've been thinking
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:42:35PM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> I think prefix has analysis side effects. There are (at least) 4 things
> that link payments: the graph of payment flows, timing, precise amounts, IP
> addresses, but with prefix a 5th: the prefix allows public elmination of
> candidates
I think prefix has analysis side effects. There are (at least) 4 things
that link payments: the graph of payment flows, timing, precise amounts, IP
addresses, but with prefix a 5th: the prefix allows public elmination of
candidates connections, I think that may make network flow analysis even
more
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:26:19PM +, Mike Hearn wrote:
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> > brittleness. The real world experience is that users, or to be exact
> > wallet authors, turn down SPV privacy parameters until bloom filters
> > have almost no privacy in exchange for little bandwidth usage.
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> That's not fun
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> brittleness. The real world experience is that users, or to be exact
> wallet authors, turn down SPV privacy parameters until bloom filters
> have almost no privacy in exchange for little bandwidth usage.
That's not fundamental though, it just reflects that the only
implementation of this is
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:23:04PM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> It also has a downside of not being indexable for the server, the
> server must do O(clients * reusable-address-txn) work and the work
> includes an ECC multiply.
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> An idea that Adam Back had originally proposed was including opt
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