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Re: [ANN] [EC] ▲ Eclipse ▲ First Cryptographically Anon SHA256d ▲ HiPoS ▲ Mine Now!
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Eclipse Crypto
on 01/03/2016, 06:19:27 UTC
It appears that the devs behind eclipse are at least somewhat competent at coding and if you have managed to successfully fix the flaw then great job.
I have some realistic concerns about eclipse though. If the fix is the only new implementation for eclipse then eclipse will simply fade away when SDC applies a fix as well. There would be no appeal to utilize SDC over Eclipse with all things being equal in terms of anonymity. My next concern is potential flaws in other parts of SDC code, this means Eclipse will also be vulnerable to them.
Do you guys have plans for eclipse other than applying the fix?

Yes, we have an internal roadmap. But before we make it public, we need to see for ourselves what kind of potential there is for an anonymous coin.

Our motivation was to get some people who know cryptography and math (us) together with a coin that has good anonymity. We aren't for bells and whistles until the potential of the underlying protocol is fully realized. However, if you like bells and whistles, those that come with shadowcoin are pretty good.

If you insist, our near-term plans are twofold and a little technical.

1. First, we need to bring the bitcoin secp256k1 library to the entirety of the Eclipse code base. This means not only using it as an API for patching the broken shadowcash ring signatures (which we have done), but also to use it for all of the operations over secp256k1. This also means integrating Schnorr signatures, which are native to the bitcoin secp256k1 library.
2. Second the current implementation needs proper blockchain pruning.