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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer
by
yAmAdA
on 13/07/2014, 20:37:26 UTC
  • CN transactions can be Sybil attacked, so that you'd be mixing mostly with adversary's own generated transactions.

Good morning.

I have found this point impossible to ignore. You are misrepresenting the argument.

Sybil attacks can be used against IP anonymization layer such as I2P.

I assume you have made this mix-up, because these systems are called mix network. It sounds similar to the mixin parameter of Monero.

To compromise ring signatures with such an attack, an attacker needs to serve you a completely changed block chain that contains only their own signatures.

If an attacker can do this, you have lost and it does not matter what coin you are using.