Quote from: gmaxwell on October 15, 2013, 06:05:11 PM

Quote from: hashman on October 15, 2013, 09:12:39 AM

1) Coinjoin as I see it adds some plausible deniability but the taint is still there. Anonymity is probably not the right word. If one of the input addresses is considered a red flag,

This is really a question for how _much_ these tools are used. What you're pointing to is that there is an information leak whenever the anonymity set is less than all users of the system.

I guess I wasn't going that deep.. just pointing out that coinjoin still leaves blockchain taint. Whereas something like me and you swapping private keys or another off chain solution like a third party tumbler does not leave block chain taint. Of course nothing is perfect as you point out so I do support any improvement in privacy.

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If, after you've exhausted the funds sent to a particular scriptPubKey, someone sends you a tiny amount of coin to that scriptPubKey and you spend it in a new transaction then whatever linkage they knew carries forward and your deanonymization grows as a sufficiently small payment will only be useful when spent in combination with other coins.

Thanks, I get it now. I didn't really understand the dust was going to empty addresses, to see if they later get used. Still seems odd but now I know what you folks were talking about