Quote from: jl777 on September 17, 2014, 09:22:30 PM

Quote from: crypto_zoidberg on September 17, 2014, 08:52:34 PM

Quote from: klee on September 17, 2014, 08:17:57 PM

Are we affected?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786201.0

Are we affected of what ? He didn't say anything concrete. Atm it looks like classic FUD, because i can't see any other goal behind this post.

But still, every cryptocurrency has a possibility to have flaws - with his post or without, devs should always keep our eyes open. We do.

how it is possible for a locally encrypted wallet to be compromised is beyond me.
conveniently he says there is a workaround to this unlikely result that just happens to require losing the anonymity
however, it also seems unlikely that losing anonymity will solve any wallet stealing

without any specifics, this is artful FUD

It might almost be possible to prove that a local wallet cannot be stolen externally via the blockchain unless the encryption of the wallet is cracked and that the wallet contents are somehow able to be transferred to the attacker! I can see the theoretical possibility of unspent funds being spent without the wallet, which is what happened to XCP. Still for someone to be making such claims, he is either the top cryptonote dev in the world or it is FUD

James

I thought the wording was strange as well, "under the right conditions" and "To fix this, anonymity will need to be sacrificed" seem not to mix in the same sentence. The claims seem contradictory.