📅 Original date posted:2014-01-16
📝 Original message:On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:29 -0800, Miron wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 23:51 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> ...
> > 3) SPV wallets that want to get a good mix of nodes for measuring
> > pending transactions identify nodes on the clearnet via their addr
> > announcements+service flag, in the normal way. They select some of
> > these nodes using the standard clearnet anti-sybil heuristics and
> > connect without using Tor. They proceed to query them for their hidden
>
> The SPV node could connect to the IP using Tor. It would preserve the
> privacy of the SPV node - hard to see it's running Bitcoin. It also
> reduces the ability of an attacker to MITM because the routing varies
> with each exit node.
>
It would also be good to gossip the mapping of (IP -> onion address).
This would allow detection of a future MITM, since the MITM can't spoof
the onion fingerprint.
Miron [ARCHIVE] /
npub1me…amfwn
2023-06-07 15:12:10
in reply to nevent1q…a47k
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