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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