📅 Original date posted:2011-08-04
🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin security vulnerabilities discussed at BH 2011 by Dan Kaminsky, but claims of a tool called "blitcoin" unmasking transactions are unfounded as transparency is by design.
📝 Original message:On Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:56:42 AM John Smith wrote:
> L.S.
>
> Some bitcoin "security vulnerabilities" have been discussed by Dan Kaminsky
> at BH 2011, there is one article about this dated yesterday:
>
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240039221/Black-Hat-2011-Dan-Kam
> insky-reveals-network-security-research-topics
>
> The article is very unspecific though. They talk about a tool called
> "blitcoin" that "unmasks" both sides of a bitcoin transaction. A google
> search also turned up nothing, except some misspellings.
Well, that certainly doesn't sound like a security vulnerability at all.
It's by design that everyone knows about every transaction.
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