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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Diogenes on January 22, 2012, 03:56 pm
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Quick question, from a person with limited knowledge of the specifics of Bitcoin mechanism, though with general programming and crypto knowledge --
does anyone have any clue / has done any research (e.g. trying to trace the transactions) about how good SR's internal bitcoin tumbling system is? I might try to implement a very lightweight tumbling/mixing / blind BTC transaction thingie, but for now actually partly rely on SR's system, which from first inspection (via blockexplorer etc.) looks good.
Anybody has any more info? If SR sees this - disclosing specifics is of course out of the question; but still, any info would be appreciated.
Thanks
D.
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The SR mixing system might hide which vendor you ordered from (although it might not if you load a unique amount of money that is associated with a certain vendors product, or other similar things) but it doesn't hide the fact that you use SR. And it doesn't use blind signatures so it offers no protection from anyone who has pwnt SR or SR himself. I wouldn't put any faith in the SR mixing system keeping you anonymous, but it is better than nothing. Look into Open Transactions.
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Aye, thanks. Re: hiding the fact of using SR - yes, this is not the intention; the idea would be to e.g. use SR to detach the deposited bitcoins from the ones withdrawn (of course using more than one transaction per deposit/withdrawal, with scattered time and amounts), and I'm not sure how good this is for that. Thanks, I know I have to take a proper look at OT, will do, actually.