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@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ of data to network eavesdroppers. Since everything is public already on Bitcoin, |
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TLS. But for privacy coins, encrypted connections is a must to lessen metadata leakage. |
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Mandatory TLS means that people recording the internet don't get to see all your data, |
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and that is very good. |
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and that is very good. To this date, all privacy coins known to the author use plaintext or optionally use TLS, no coin |
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except Hush requires privacy for all network connections! |
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What if the attacker is willing to run one or more nodes? In both Bitcoin/Zcash protocol, it is simple to have one or many nodes on the network |
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that listen for which IP address is first relaying a transaction, which is a very good indication of that node having created that transaction. |
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