Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network paper

2014-12-08 Thread Isidor Zeuner
[As an aside I agree that there are lots of things to improve here, but the fact that users can in theory be forced off of tor via DOS attacks is not immediately concerning to me because its a conscious choice users would make to abandon their privacy Bitcoin already has a large

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network paper

2014-12-08 Thread Mike Hearn
Finally, distributors of consumer wallets can use this research in order to distribute their wallet with policies which may be less prone to Tor-specific attacks. Or leave this out altogether if their audience has different expectations for connecting to Bitcoin. Sure. I guess there will be