Adam Back [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-06-20 📝 Original message:Also Jonas Nick gave a ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-06-20
📝 Original message:Also Jonas Nick gave a fairly comprehensive presentation on privacy
leaks in bitcoin protocol including SPV and bloom query problem
specifics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScK4pkDNds
Adam
On 20 June 2017 at 14:08, bfd--- via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 2017-06-20 12:52, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>>
>> Second, stating that a bloom filter is a "total loss of privacy" is
>> equally
>> baseless and doesn’t need debunking.
>>
>
> "On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients"
>
>> We show analytically and empirically that the reliance on Bloom filters
>> within existing SPV clients leaks considerable information about the
>> addresses of Bitcoin users. Our results show that an SPV client who uses a
>> modest number of Bitcoin addresses (e.g., < 20) risks revealing almost all
>> of his addresses.
>
>
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/763.pdf
>
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📝 Original message:Also Jonas Nick gave a fairly comprehensive presentation on privacy
leaks in bitcoin protocol including SPV and bloom query problem
specifics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScK4pkDNds
Adam
On 20 June 2017 at 14:08, bfd--- via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 2017-06-20 12:52, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>>
>> Second, stating that a bloom filter is a "total loss of privacy" is
>> equally
>> baseless and doesn’t need debunking.
>>
>
> "On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients"
>
>> We show analytically and empirically that the reliance on Bloom filters
>> within existing SPV clients leaks considerable information about the
>> addresses of Bitcoin users. Our results show that an SPV client who uses a
>> modest number of Bitcoin addresses (e.g., < 20) risks revealing almost all
>> of his addresses.
>
>
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/763.pdf
>
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