On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Ivan Pustogarov <ivan.pustoga...@uni.lu> wrote: > Hi there, > I'd like to start a discussion on periodic rotation of outbound connections. > E.g. every 2-10 minutes an outbound connections is dropped and replaced > by a new one.
Connection rotation would be fine for improving a node's knoweldge about available peers and making the network stronger against partitioning. I haven't implemented this because I think your motivation is _precisely_ opposite the behavior. If you keep a constant set of outbound peers only those peers learn the origin of your transactions, and so it is unlikely that any particular attacker will gain strong evidence. If you rotate where you send out your transactions then with very high probability a sybil pretending to be many nodes will observe you transmitting directly. Ultimately, since the traffic is clear text, if you expect to have any privacy at all in your broadcasts you should be broadcasting over tor or i2p. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
