Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-11-27 📝 Original message:On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-11-27
📝 Original message:On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Mistr Bigs <misterbg6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be mistaken, but it seems to me this paper discusses unintended ways
> of obtaining the IP addresses of clients involved in transactions on the
> core Bitcoin network.
You're mistaken. :)
If a node is used exclusively via tor it effectively doesn't have a IP address.
(short of bugs of a class that aren't discussed here)
The paper is about fingerprinting approaches that probabilistically
connect transactions to hosts that you can already identify their IPs.
📝 Original message:On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Mistr Bigs <misterbg6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be mistaken, but it seems to me this paper discusses unintended ways
> of obtaining the IP addresses of clients involved in transactions on the
> core Bitcoin network.
You're mistaken. :)
If a node is used exclusively via tor it effectively doesn't have a IP address.
(short of bugs of a class that aren't discussed here)
The paper is about fingerprinting approaches that probabilistically
connect transactions to hosts that you can already identify their IPs.