Deanonymisation of clients in bitcoin P2P network

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 15-29

  Biryukov, Alex ^a   Khovratovich, Dmitry ^a   Pustogarov, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Bitcoin; P2P; Tor

Indexed keywords

BITCOIN; NETWORK SECURITY;

ANONYMITY; ANONYMITY SERVICE; IP ADDRESSS; P2P NETWORK; PUBLIC KEYS; UNLINKABILITY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84910678324     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2660267.2660379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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