[Bitcoin-development] CoinShuffle: decentralized CoinJoin without trusted third parties

2014-08-06 Thread Tim Ruffing
technical overview. Our next step is to implement the protocol. Help in design and coding would be great but we also would like to hear your comments, criticism, and improvements for the protocol itself. Best, Tim Ruffing, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Aniket Kate signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] CoinShuffle: decentralized CoinJoin without trusted third parties

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Ruffing
You are raising valid questions and one goal of our posting here is indeed to discuss exactly these system issues. On Thursday 07 August 2014 15:00:11 you wrote: > I think the description at your website leaves out the truly interesting > part: How do you decentralize this securely? > - How do Al

Re: [Bitcoin-development] CoinShuffle: decentralized CoinJoin without trusted third parties

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Ruffing
Hmm, you are right. Lightweight clients are an interesting point, we have to think about a policy for them. As you said, the worst case is that the tx will not confirm. So the only possible attack is DoS. For clients that rely on servers it's reasonable to trust their servers not to perform DoS

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-04 Thread Tim Ruffing
This is great to see. On Monday 02 March 2015 11:48:24 Andrew Miller wrote: > One of the main goals of our work is to build a bridge between the > computer science research community and the cryptocurrency community. > Many of the most interesting ideas and proposals for Bitcoin come from > this