On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:50:30PM +0000, Justus Ranvier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/23/2014 04:17 PM, xor wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 07:40:39 PM Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Encryption is of little value if you may deduce the same > >> information by observing packet sizes and timings. > > > > Instead of spawning a discussion whether this aspect is a reason to > > NOT encrypt, you should do the obvious: > > > > Fix that as well. X being broken is not a reason for not fixing Y. > > Pad the then encrypted packets with random bytes. The fact that > > they are encrypted makes them look like random data already, so the > > padding will not be distinguishable from the rest. Also, add some > > random bias to their timing. > > The packet size and timing issue will become less of an issue as the > network grows anyway. > > One transaction inserted into a 3 transaction-per-second encrypted > stream is more obvious than the same transaction inserted into a 100 > or 1000 TPS stream.
The requirement for anonymity and privacy is lawyers and a Bitlicense. If you want privacy and anonymity, then do high-frequency trading on a centralized exchange, and if you want to go over-the-top, run some arbitrage bots as well, and hide in the millions of transactions per second that go on. But make sure you get a Bitlicense and have a good securities lawyer. Trying to solve a legal/legislative/social problem with more crypto is only going to serve the people who created the legal/legislative/social problem in the first place, because 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
