Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network paper

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>]

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I don't recall being contacted directly, but the attack has been
discussed.  It relies on a number of conditions.  For example, if you are
over Tor, they try to kick the machine off Tor, _assuming_ that it will
fall back to non-Tor.  That's only true for dual stack nodes, which are not
really 100% anonymous anyway -- you're operating from your public IP anyway.


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com
> wrote:

> This paper was just posted on reddit that describes how an attacker can
> de-anonymize clients on the bitcoin network. It mentions that the core devs
> were contacted prior to publication. I was just wondering, how many of
> these issues have already been addressed?
>
>
> Paper (University of Luxembourg):
> http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/18679
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jean-Paul
>
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Jeff Garzik
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