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Re: [ANN][SIM] Simcoin - A Simple Coin
by
NxtChg
on 27/05/2014, 08:58:56 UTC
And the whole world Smiley

Grin

Well, there is a bit of blame on those people too, of course. One should be more paranoid and double check things like that. But part of the blame goes to system designers.

For Simcoin, one of my earlier designs allowed a sniffer to identify sender's account used for packet encryption.

Well, I thought, I'll be lazy and let users create a separate account just for communication. Problem solved! Less work for me.

But then I thought: come on! How many people will bother to actually do it? They will assume the system is secure by default and use their primary account.

So I went back to the drawing board and redesigned it. Now packets look like random noise and should not reveal any information at all.

We can't rely on our users to be cryptoexperts unfortunately.