Quote from: Johnny Mnemonic on March 27, 2015, 09:38:13 AM

Quote from: majamina on March 27, 2015, 09:34:06 AM

Quote from: Johnny Mnemonic on March 27, 2015, 09:29:30 AM

I still don't understand what these "probabilities" illustrate? Either a transaction can be traced or it cannot. What exactly are the probabilities of?

If you compromise a masternode and spy on it's activity, you can theoretically start to piece together all the required information to trace a Darksend transaction back to a user's wallet. Since nodes are selected randomly for Darksend, you would need to compromise the correct nodes to do so. These are the probabilities of you having compromised the correct nodes and therefore being able to decode the transaction.

Okay that makes sense. Thank you.

Johny M, I am reading from where majamina's chart was posted, up until I see my post. Having just read your post quoted here, I see that your question was not due to a lack of understanding statistics, but simply their application to masternodes. Please forgive my lack of approbation for you understanding of statistics. (FWIW--nice nym.

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