FloodXMR: #Monero spamming
This paper shows how an attacker can take advantage of Monero’s Bulletproof protocol, which reduces transaction fees, to flood the network with his own transactions and, consequently, remove mixins from transaction inputs to break #privacy
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/455.pdf
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And this is known at least since 2018, as I understand. I am new to #monero, so just having knowledge now, but is this something widely know by the community? What is the sentiment regarding #xmr and this study?
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Old paper and fairly sure this vulnerability was already patched, but correct me if I'm wrong LiberLion
Doesn't affect hidden amounts or addresses either.
So this is what they would theoretically know:
Alice sent ? to ?
And it is also harder than you might think to sustain this kind of attack. ArticMine goes over the details in recent Monero Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/live/UeUGiSreegs?si=hIxFstNyY4_7vTwi&t=5753
Start 1:36:00