Re: [Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-22 Thread Matt Corallo
Absolutely not. Time and time again we've seen "anonymized" data sets that dont work out so well. I'm sure its possible to do but there are too many factors and we dont want to succumb to this. Also, these generally look good (and essentially the same as what had been a gentleman's agreement for t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Peter Todd wrote: > Might be worthwhile to also write an "Expectations for DNSSeed users" > outlining what security properties the seeds actually have, and what > kind of attacks are possible. Agreed. I've seen some amount of use of dnsseeds which I would consid

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-21 Thread Peter Todd
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:43:42PM +0200, Wladimir wrote: > We've established a few basic rules for the DNS seeds as used in the > Bitcoin Core software. See below. > > If you run one of the DNS seeds please reply to this and let us know > whether you agree to these terms. if you think some requir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-21 Thread Christian Decker
How about research projects into node distribution? Specifically I wonder whether the collection and analysis of DNS query origin is allowed when queries are anonymized and aggregated. This would prevent the identification of a single user, which I assume is the rationale for point 4. Other than t

[Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-21 Thread Wladimir
We've established a few basic rules for the DNS seeds as used in the Bitcoin Core software. See below. If you run one of the DNS seeds please reply to this and let us know whether you agree to these terms. if you think some requirements are unreasonable let us know too. If we haven't heard from yo