From b894ec6aa2b43fc4a4cc39c3f00abb8834a2e0da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Maria Piana Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 12:13:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Mailserver knows the bloomfilter of the topic Nodes only disclose the cumulative bloom filter of the topics they are interested in, not the actual topics. --- status-client-spec.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/status-client-spec.md b/status-client-spec.md index 345b8aa..5d2e194 100644 --- a/status-client-spec.md +++ b/status-client-spec.md @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ For some further investigation, see #### 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. +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 the bloom filter of the topics the node is interested in, when it is online as well as many metadata like IP address. ### Data sync