TARANET: Traffic-Analysis Resistant Anonymity at the NETwork layer — mentioned by sparkie

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:17:57 GMT

LN is an onion routed network, and has some privacy - notably, sender privacy, as the sender does not need to be known to the recipient. The recipient however is not private, but there have been proposals for rendevouz routing which could also anonymize them. LN payments are based on Sphinx[1], but they don't leverage the full capabilities of it. Sphinx only allows for single-use replies. The proposals for bidirectional anonymity involve using HORNET[2], which builds on Sphinx (specifically, it uses Sphinx's single-reply message to establish a HORNET connection), and enables sender-receiver…

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TARANET: Traffic-Analysis Resistant Anonymity at the NETwork layer — mentioned by sparkie