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Criteria for evaluating Bitcoin wallets' privacy properties.
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rename countermeasure concerning querying blockchain data for multiple addresses #110

Closed kristovatlas closed 8 years ago

kristovatlas commented 8 years ago

Current wording:

Obtain relevant blockchain data without making queries to other network participants

Proposed new wording:

Perform multiple queries for blockchain data in a way that makes it difficult to correlate the queries with one another

The criteria that apply to this countermeasure are as follows, prompting the rewording:

Balance information is obtained without making queries to other network participants Balance information is obtained by making queries to other network participants that do not include multiple addresses in a specific connection context Avoids including addresses from multiple identity containers in the same balance query Balance information is obtained via a method that matches a fraction of the blockchain beyond the addresses belonging to the wallet Avoids including addresses from multiple identity containers in the same balance query

Alternatively, we could break up the current countermeasure into multiple countermeasures.

kristovatlas commented 8 years ago

Let's retain this countermeasure:

Obtain relevant blockchain data without making queries to other network participants

re-word criteria:

Balance information is obtained without making queries to other network participants

to:

Balance information is obtained through a local copy of the blockchain.

Add a new one:

Perform multiple queries for blockchain data in a way that makes it difficult to correlate the queries with one another

All other criteria will fall under this. ACK'd by @justusranvier and @crwatkins in meeting

dcousens commented 8 years ago

ACK on all

crwatkins commented 8 years ago

ACK