Whirlpool is back!
You can read my summary here, it also includes links to official resources and a video tutorial on using the new interface.
Discussion
- Still using the centralized coordinator
- Increased coordinator fee
- Only 2 pool size available
Remains vulnerable to https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/CbfbEGozG7c/m/w2B-RRdUCQAJ
- Huge mistake. They should have launched without centralized coordinator
- 5% is crazy.
- I'm actually OK with this. It just seems a waste of all that unspent capacity. I do understand the reasons why though.
I'm out.
Its the same fee as it used to be and it's important for Sybil protection.
Yeah I was wondering about that. Coordinator needs decentralisation.
…glad to see progress.
i appreciate your investigation here floppy
he apparently missed that they have a RSA key hardcoded into the client now
so... 😕
Seems like clients don’t verify that signatures actually come from that hardcoded key (which they are definitely able to do). Until that is done clients are still vulnerable to a coordinator tagging attack.
have you also verified about the signatures
or are you just taking floppy's word for it?
Ya `unblind` is called w/o signature verification. Easy fix http://ashicodepbnpvslzsl2bz7l2pwrjvajgumgac423pp3y2deprbnzz7id.onion/Ashigaru/Ashigaru-Terminal/src/commit/0bbed17ea5130bcf2aec5af6d3cc93f54aa9d871/darkjar/src/main/java/com/samourai/whirlpool/client/mix/MixProcess.java#L206-L214
Gotcha
thanks for the link
/dev/fud
#winning
Thx for the video K3tan!
That is fantastic news!
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btc pumping too. coincidence? nah
Appears to require trust in both other clients and servers for liveness and privacy respectively. Disappointing because these problems are solvable. Makes you think.
Terminal connects to an electrum server the same as most wallets like Sparrow.
There is a coordinator but it isn't tied to a single local node. Decentralization of the coordinator has always been the goal.
What does it make you think?
That note provides no details
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