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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XTs Tor IP blacklist downloading system has significant privacy leaks.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 01:48:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQcravsrCY+VKi_25baXWWp01LpAVSHfi5b8ma8G_G6hw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819013645.GC2835@muck>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> tl;dr: Yes, Bitcoin XT has a privacy problem with the automatic Tor exit
> node list download.

It's not a bug, it's a feature: These concerns and others were
specifically called out when we rejected this submission to Bitcoin
Core in favor of a more generic approach that lacks the privacy
problems and avoids being explicitly punitave to the use of Tor.

At least it's not a full on block as soon a the node fills for the
first time like the first implementation.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19  1:08 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XTs Tor IP blacklist downloading system has significant privacy leaks Christophe Biocca
2015-08-19  1:36 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-19  1:48   ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2015-08-19  2:25   ` Peter Todd
2015-08-19 15:45     ` Mike Hearn
2015-08-19 18:51       ` Btc Drak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-18 23:31 F L
2015-08-18 23:56 ` Andrew LeCody
2015-08-19  0:00 ` Patrick Strateman

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