Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XLGb0-0004r8-9p for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:03:26 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([192.3.11.21]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1XLGam-0007mT-Mf for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:03:26 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:5:265:be5f:f4ff:febf:4f76]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7ABE81080209; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:54:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Luke Dashjr To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:02:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.15.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E463 A93F 5F31 17EE DE6C 7316 BD02 9424 21F4 889F X-PGP-Key-ID: BD02942421F4889F X-PGP-Keyserver: hkp://pgp.mit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201408231902.57017.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.7 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1XLGam-0007mT-Mf Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:03:26 -0000 On Saturday, August 23, 2014 6:44:15 PM Mike Hearn wrote: > > Not to mention encrypting basically non-sensitive inter-node traffic is > > almost completely worthless in providing anonymity anyway... > > Recall that P2P connections carry Bloom filters too, which are not public > information. As soon as you tell it to an unknown/public peer, it is public information.