[Bitcoin-development] Bloom bait

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 16:58:19 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Peter Todd <pete at petertodd.org> wrote:
> transactions against. Where they differ is that bloom filters has O(n)
> scaling, where n is the size of a block, and prefix filters have O(log n)
> scaling with slightly(1) higher k. Again, if you *don't* use brute forcing
> in conjunction with prefixes they have no different transactional graph
> privacy than bloom filters,

Huh? How are you thinking that something that gets put in transactions
and burned forever into the blockchain that lets you (statically) link
txout ownership is "no different" from something which is shared
directly with a couple peers, potentially peers you trust and which
are run by yourself or your organization?




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