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DHS Looking Into Tracking Monero and Zcash Transactions (zdnet.com)
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is interested in acquiring technology solutions that can track newer cryptocurrencies, such as Zcash and Monero. From a report: According to a pre-solicitation document [PDF], the DHS wants to know if this is possible, before filing an official solicitation request later down the line. The DHS said that "prior efforts have addressed Bitcoin analytics," but now the agency and the law enforcement agencies under its supervision are looking into similar cryptocurrency analytics solutions that can be used to track so-called privacy coins -- cryptocurrencies that support anonymous transactions.
"A key feature underlying these newer blockchain platforms that is frequently emphasized is the capability for anonymity and privacy protection," the DHS document said. "While these features are desirable, there is similarly a compelling interest in tracing and understanding transactions and actions on the blockchain of an illegal nature. This proposal calls for solutions that enable law enforcement investigations to perform forensic analysis on blockchain transactions," it added.
"A key feature underlying these newer blockchain platforms that is frequently emphasized is the capability for anonymity and privacy protection," the DHS document said. "While these features are desirable, there is similarly a compelling interest in tracing and understanding transactions and actions on the blockchain of an illegal nature. This proposal calls for solutions that enable law enforcement investigations to perform forensic analysis on blockchain transactions," it added.
I like how they invented tether, a fiat currency, to save them from the evils of fiat. What is there now, almost $2 billion tethers printed? Lol
Oh sure. There's a special kind of maths that only allows law enforcement people to de-anonymize encrypted data. That kind of maths is not accessible by the general public nor the bad guys.
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Stop money laundering and sanction evasions.
APK does not spam the anti-semite stuff, that's C6gummer (and nazi fag pals) masquerading ask APK. C6gummer has dozens of the nazi doppelganger accounts. APK actually caught him posting logged in as himself by accident.
So if you want the nazi faggot to point to responsible for the nazi faggot shit, it's not APK, it's c6gummer. There is actual proof. (Not to defend APK's hosts file rants, though... he's half right about those too)
(Slashdot won't even ban the known trolls with accounts, so getting them to crack down on trolls under AC is even less important to them. So, community policing continues, hang the nazi trash children one by one)
-AC for the last 23 years or so
If they break in, we just have to develop something else. Regardless of any "illegitimacy", the state is too corrupt to be allowed any advantage.
Why do taxpayers allow this to happen? This is a waste of your hard earned cash
Okay APK, let's say that 100% of what you posted about Jews in your exfessively long diatribe is correct. It's not, but for the sake of discussion, let's say you're 100% right. That doesn't change the fact that it's completely off-topic. It also doesn't change the fact that you've spammed it in other articles, including over 20 times in a single article. It's spam like your posts that makes these comment sections nearly unreadable at times.
I keep calling out and reporting the spam in hopes that the Slashdot admins will clean things up. Malda and others used to make lots of tweaks and code improvements to try to curtain abuses. That's why there's a lameness filter and why Slashdot scans for unsecured proxies. It just isn't clear that the current ownership of this site cares about improving things the way Malda et. al did.
I'm not saying the currencies are safe against active attackers, or people wishing to just mess with the block chain, this is just about privacy and scanning the block chain.
Assuming we can create a secure hash function and people use truly random numbers then the ring signatures used in Monero are secure in that they reveal no knowledge about who signed the message. Anyone of the private keys associated with the public keys could have been the signer. Your next option would be to try and track transaction inputs and outputs but even these permit any possible value. So just looking at the block chain, even if you have a quantum computer and can solve the discrete log problem (DLP), you aren't going to learn much. As an active attacker, one who is creating outputs that they hope their intended victim will then use as inputs, and again possessing a way to solve DLP, maybe but you will have to solve one DLP for every attack. There might be a way to double spend many times if you could solve the DLP once. That's because you could solve a relation between two generators of the elliptic curve group used by RCTTypeFull, but that exploit will likely be closed before anyone develops a working quantum computer large enough to attack Ed25519.
Further reading:
https://www.getmonero.org/libr...
Zcash uses a different group membership algorithm. It could be broken if you had a quantum computer, but again you have to solve either the DLP or RSA problem for each transaction you wish to investigate. It will be years before that computing power is feasible to spend on one transaction.
There are no good resources, that I would recommend, for Zcash and other zero coin derivatives.
Invest in Cryptonite. The transactions are not public.
This is how governments should investigate crimes, by working things out for themselves instead of insisting on back doors, or if the can't do that, as is the case of world-wide open source projects, trying to legislate against it.
Monero will soon have Kovri. You won't know where in the world the payments are being made not a mind who send them and what they sent and to whom.
Tracking zCash will be easier as most people will be lazy and just use t-addresses. Monero tracking would be hard. DHS may need resort to social attacks, malicious wallet code, network timing attacks and data sweeps.
But that isn't even APK posting that tripe.