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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011 August 05 Friday, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>
> Transaction forwarding could be randomised slightly, by randomising the
> outgoing relay order; and adding a random delay between each forward.  Even
> the massively connected monitor can't represent _all_ the connections on
> every
> real node, so it would have no way of knowing whether it got any
> transaction
> from the originator or because it got a fast path through the first N nodes
> to
> receive it.
>

Right, while it doesn't warrant completely changing the transport protocol
to UDP or implementing onion routing,  I'm all for simple timing and order
randomization changes if they can make attacks like this less effective.

JS

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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Andy Par=
kins <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:andyparkins@gmail.com" target=
=3D"_blank">andyparkins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote clas=
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ding-left:1ex">

<div>On 2011 August 05 Friday, Gavin Andresen wrote:<br>
<br>
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outgoing relay order; and adding a random delay between each forward. =A0Ev=
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real node, so it would have no way of knowing whether it got any transactio=
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from the originator or because it got a fast path through the first N nodes=
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receive it.<br></blockquote><div><br>Right, while it doesn&#39;t warrant co=
mpletely changing the transport protocol to UDP or implementing onion routi=
ng,=A0 I&#39;m all for simple timing and order randomization changes if the=
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<br>JS<br><br></div></div>

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