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That study was by some Israeli CS students, not the feds. It's methodology was severely messed up. It got absolutely destroyed by this peer review. https://gist

That study was by some Israeli CS students, not the feds. It's methodology was severely messed up. It got absolutely destroyed by this peer review. https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921 https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921

sliverstorm 14y ago
Either way, the core idea seems sound IMO.
feral 14y ago
'Some Israeli CS students'? That seems a little un-generous: the authors have published papers since the 80s, and one has a Turing award. But I think the study you actually want might our study, which focuses on anonymity: http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ie/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.html http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ie/2011/07/bitcoin-is-n... I might be biased, but I think we deal with most of the points JGarzik mentioned in our paper. But we're not 'the Feds'; perhaps silverstorm was thinking of this story: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-fears-bitcoin/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-fears-bitcoin/
tptacek 14y ago
Ahh, Hacker News, where Adi Shamir counts as "some Israeli CS student". http://www.amazon.com/Differential-Cryptanalysis-Data-Encryption-Standard/dp/0387979301 http://www.amazon.com/Differential-Cryptanalysis-Data-Encryp...
- rmc 14y ago
  To expand, Adi Shamir is the S in RSA.