Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-24 Thread Mike Hearn
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-24 Thread Peter Todd
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:26:19PM +, Mike Hearn wrote: 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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-24 Thread Adam Back
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-24 Thread Peter Todd
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-24 Thread Jeremy Spilman
I think we need to provide users with better options than that. 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

[Bitcoin-development] Bait for reusable addresses

2014-01-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
One challenge with reusable addresses is that while they result in a small constant overhead for full nodes in searching for their own transactions they create large overheads for SPV nodes. One way to address this is for the SPV nodes to hand their servers their blinding private key so that the