On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Adam Back wrote: > Advertising NODE BLOOM as a service sounds good. > > But the critique of bloom filters, I am not so sure prefix filters are > better. Prefix filters offer questionable privacy tradeoffs in my > opinion. Same problem as with stealth address proposed use of > prefixes.
That's assuming you're doing the proposed prefix brute forcing - if you don't do that they have privacy equal or better than bloom filters, but with better scalability. In particular that better scalability lets you efficiently query multiple servers for blockchain data, only giving up info on a subset of the addresses in your wallet to each server. This can be a significant improvement to bloom filters if your attacker is running logging nodes to try to, say, deanonymize CoinJoin transactions. > All for scalability, efficiency and decentralization but not ideally at the > expense of nuking privacy. The effects on privacy are cumulative, and > affect everyone not just the user. Same pattern of local decision, global > effect as with reused addresses. Indeed. But again, remember that the existing systems suck too; prefix-brute forcing is a engineering tradeoff implementable with existing and well understood technology. Now if you want to come up with something better and write code, please do! I'm sure the math exists; what doesn't exist is robust and well tested code in multiple languages. Stealth addresses at least have been designed so that future blockchain filter upgrades can be added in a backwards compatible way. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 00000000000000003a68ee16d702ca5dd5547fb4aead910a004747cb06241dd6
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