@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ slow, except for research+development, then had a horrible inflation bug. Hush a
Sprout by not having a single Sprout transactions in our blockchain. This leads to Hush being much faster than Zcash or other coins to sync a full node. Current reports say that on fast internet the full HUSH v3 blockchain
can be synced in about 2 hours (Feb 2021).
## Enforced Privacy
## Enforced Privacy: Consensus
Hush enabled enforced privacy (z2z) at Block 340K in November 2020, directly competing with Monero.
This is enforced privacy at the blockchain level. Hush also has network-level privacy: Hush nodes use TLS 1.3
to talk with eachother, not plaintext, like Bitcoin and Zcash.
## Enforced Privacy: P2P
The original Hush source code had TLS implemented, and then when we migrated to KMD, that was lost. Finally,
the developer `miodrag` wrote a new TLS 1.3 implementation and Hush now requires all nodes to use encrypted
p2p connections as of Hush 3.6.1. This used to be called `-tls=only` (when TLS was optional) but now that option has no effect and the internals always enforce privacy.
