Public versus anonymous transactions

[jamesroguski]

Interesting study from Purdue University regarding privacy issues. 

http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/ripples-transactions-can-fully-anonymous/
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pmorenos/public/pathshuffle.pdf
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pmorenos/public/poster-cosn.pdf

 

[OlivierA]

Very interesting.

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PathShuffle – Anonymizing Ripple’s Transactions:

A group of researchers recently presented a perfect solution that can anonymize most transactions across Ripple’s network. PathShuffle is by far the first coin mixing protocol for path based transactions across credit networks. The protocol relies on a new approach named “path mixing” for anonymizing transactions across credit networks that is based on the observation that IOU credit transaction paths sharing a common node can be successfully mixed.