Rucknium1 has completed2 the first milestone for their latest CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy3:
I have completed Milestone 1. [..] I evaluated the possible privacy impact of allowing permissionless querying of nodes’ fluff-phase transaction pools. Using techniques from the “topology inference from cascades” research literature, there are possible attacks that a high-resource adversary could execute to reduce user privacy and the integrity of the peer-to-peer network. [..]
Work overview
- Derive the tradeoff function between ring size and transaction fees4
- Simulate the combined black marble attack and Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition from Vijayakumaran (2023) to evaluate vulnerability to chain reaction analysis5
- Create a node network crawler that seeks the source of large transaction volumes6
- Safety of adjusting the 10 block lock7 [..]
Read the complete progress report on Gitlab2.
Consult the previous Monero Observer report8 to learn more about the project.
https://github.com/Rucknium/ ↩
https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/439#note_26679 ↩ ↩2
https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/Rucknium-Statistical-Research.html ↩
https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/pdf/monero-black-marble-optimal-fee-ring-size.pdf ↩
https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/code/dulmage-mendelsohn-decomposition.R, https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/pdf/monero-black-marble-flood.pdf ↩
https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/code/p2p-log-analysis.R ↩
https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/102#issuecomment-2402750881 ↩
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