On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:29 -0800, Miron wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 23:51 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > ... > > 3) SPV wallets that want to get a good mix of nodes for measuring > > pending transactions identify nodes on the clearnet via their addr > > announcements+service flag, in the normal way. They select some of > > these nodes using the standard clearnet anti-sybil heuristics and > > connect without using Tor. They proceed to query them for their hidden > > The SPV node could connect to the IP using Tor. It would preserve the > privacy of the SPV node - hard to see it's running Bitcoin. It also > reduces the ability of an attacker to MITM because the routing varies > with each exit node. >
It would also be good to gossip the mapping of (IP -> onion address). This would allow detection of a future MITM, since the MITM can't spoof the onion fingerprint. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
