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From: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup.net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:50:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F8C656.6010200@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1569765.oHsHtFYAhh@1337h4x0r>

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On 08/23/2014 04:17 PM, xor wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 07:40:39 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Encryption is of little value if you may deduce the same
>> information by observing packet sizes and timings.
> 
> Instead of spawning a discussion whether this aspect is a reason to
> NOT encrypt, you should do the obvious:
> 
> Fix that as well. X being broken is not a reason for not fixing Y. 
> Pad the then encrypted packets with random bytes. The fact that
> they are encrypted makes them look like random data already, so the
> padding will not be distinguishable from the rest. Also, add some
> random bias to their timing.

The packet size and timing issue will become less of an issue as the
network grows anyway.

One transaction inserted into a 3 transaction-per-second encrypted
stream is more obvious than the same transaction inserted into a 100
or 1000 TPS stream.

- -- 
Support online privacy by using email encryption whenever possible.
Learn how here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakOKJFtB-k
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-23 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CA+8=xuJ+YDTNjyDW7DvP8KPN_nrFWpE68HvLw6EokFa-B-QGKw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-08-19  9:49 ` [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages Raúl Martínez
     [not found]   ` <0C0EF7F9-DBBA-4872-897D-63CFA3853726@ricmoo.com>
2014-08-19 15:11     ` Raúl Martínez
2014-08-19 15:30       ` Richard Moore
2014-08-19 16:07         ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-19 16:38           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 16:58             ` Angel Leon
2014-08-19 17:19               ` Christophe Biocca
2014-08-19 17:35             ` Johnathan Corgan
2014-08-19 23:38               ` J Ross Nicoll
2014-08-19 23:39                 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-19 23:54                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 23:40                 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20  0:16                   ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20  0:21                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20  0:41                       ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20  0:59                         ` William Yager
2014-08-20  1:14                           ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20  1:19                             ` William Yager
2014-08-20  1:27                               ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20  0:49                     ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-20  0:57                       ` Peter Todd
2014-08-23 16:17                   ` xor
2014-08-23 16:50                     ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
2014-08-23 17:50                       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 18:22                         ` William Yager
2014-08-23 18:44                           ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 19:02                             ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-23 22:51                               ` Peter Todd
     [not found] <c45a638f1e1640fe84bef01d12cda4c3@hotmail.com>
2014-08-20  3:23 ` Un Ix
2014-08-20  5:40   ` Cameron Garnham
2014-08-20 14:37     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23  6:39       ` Troy Benjegerdes

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