On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Adam Back <a...@cypherspace.org> wrote: > Advertising NODE BLOOM as a service sounds good. > > But the critique of bloom filters, I am not so sure prefix filters are > better. Prefix filters offer questionable privacy tradeoffs in my opinion. > Same problem as with stealth address proposed use of prefixes. > > All for scalability, efficiency and decentralization but not ideally at the > expense of nuking privacy. The effects on privacy are cumulative, and > affect everyone not just the user. Same pattern of local decision, global > effect as with reused addresses.
The performance Bytecoin/Monero/Fantom/etc. systems that use ECDH addresses for all transactions seem to be suggesting that the prefixes aren't really needed. At least with current system rules doing the ECDH for each transaction seems pretty reasonable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
