From 61cff81257a429fdbe5e1472afdd52526fd33edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oskar Thoren Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:49:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add mailserver privacy concern --- status-spec.md | 6 ++++++ x7.md | 5 ----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/status-spec.md b/status-spec.md index 31bdf27..eae023d 100644 --- a/status-spec.md +++ b/status-spec.md @@ -299,6 +299,12 @@ Discovery v5 for a short period of time until their peer list is populated. For some further investigation, see [here](https://github.com/status-im/swarms/blob/master/ideas/092-disc-v5-research.md). +#### I heard something about mailservers being trusted somehow? + +In order to use a mail server, a given node needs to connect to it directly, i.e. add the mailserver as its peer and mark it as trusted. This means that the mail server is able to send direct p2p messages to the node instead of broadcasting them. Effectively, it knows which topics the node is interested in, when it is online as well as many metadata like IP address. + + + ## Footnotes 1. diff --git a/x7.md b/x7.md index bc1d2b2..71e1728 100644 --- a/x7.md +++ b/x7.md @@ -162,11 +162,6 @@ Saved messages are delivered to a requester (another Whisper peer) asynchronousl In order to receive historic messages from a filter, p2p messages MUST be allowed when creating the filter. Receiving p2p messages is implemented in [geth's Whisper V6 implementation](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/v1.8.23/whisper/whisperv6/whisper.go#L739-L751). -## Anonymity concerns - -In order to use a mail server, a given node needs to connect to it directly, i.e. add the mail server as its peer and mark it as trusted. This means that the mail server is able to send direct p2p messages to the node instead of broadcasting them. Effectively, it knows which topics the node is interested in, when it is online as well as many metadata like IP address. - -