Re: [bitcoin-dev] BloomFilter issue with segwit addresses

[Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>]

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Note that this would compound the privacy leak that Jonas Nick used to
identify address clusters via the bloom filters in one of his publications.
By reducing the false positives when matching you can get very detailed
clusters. Then again we know that bloom filters aren't good for privacy
anyway, so this might be a non-issue.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 00:17 Jim Posen via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Why not add the outpoints owned by the wallet to the filter and watch for
> those instead of elements in the input script or witness data?
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andreas
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up and this seems indeed to be suboptimal.
>>
>> > I wonder if Bitcoin Core would be willing to extend the BIP37 matching
>> > rules such that data elements in the witness are also matched against?
>>
>> Bitcoin Core is not an identity that can be „willing to extend“ (or
>> reject) a feature.
>> Someone needs to come up with a proposal (pull request).
>>
>> Maybe an extension for BIP37 would make sense (*meh*).
>> Just inserting the witness data into the bloom filter seems to be an easy
>> solution (CBloomFilter::IsRelevantAndUpdate())
>>
>> /jonas
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