<div dir="ltr">I don't recall being contacted directly, but the attack has been discussed. It relies on a number of conditions. For example, if you are over Tor, they try to kick the machine off Tor, _assuming_ that it will fall back to non-Tor. That's only true for dual stack nodes, which are not really 100% anonymous anyway -- you're operating from your public IP anyway.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Jean-Paul Kogelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanpaulkogelman@me.com" target="_blank">jeanpaulkogelman@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>This paper was just posted on reddit that describes how an attacker can de-anonymize clients on the bitcoin network. It mentions that the core devs were contacted prior to publication. I was just wondering, how many of these issues have already been addressed?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Paper (University of Luxembourg):</div><div><a href="http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/18679" target="_blank">http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/18679</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Paul</div></div><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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