📅 Original date posted:2014-08-23
📝 Original message:On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
> they can hire a hacker who will
> find a misplaced (} in your crypto code, and all the work you did to
> encrypt wire protocols becomes silently worthless.
>
Not to mention encrypting basically non-sensitive inter-node traffic is
almost completely worthless in providing anonymity anyway...
Seriously, I have not heard a strong justification for this proposal yet. I
have heard some people talking about Tor-ifying communications, but that is
a completely different issue and should not be confused with just
"encrypting bitcoin messages".
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2023-06-07 15:25:25
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