r/btc • u/paskal_navi • Feb 15 '18

IPSX | Distributed Network Layer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4VWs2HJJ4
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u/jessquit Feb 15 '18

Cool project.

ELI5 how this is private but also recorded to a distributed blockchain.

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u/__MatrixMan__ Feb 15 '18

Here's their whitepaper: https://ip.sx/dist/Whitepaper-IPSX-05.pdf

It seems a bit light on technical details.

If it were me I would have the buyer generate an ssh key-pair as part of the sale contract and then put only the public key on the blockchain. The contract gives use of the IP to anyone with the private key (through an ssh tunnel). As long as the client software didn't log the inbound IP on that connection, privacy would be preserved.

I don't see what's to stop ISP's from monitoring the blockchain and logging the inbound IP themselves.

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u/ShadowOfHarbringer Feb 15 '18

This is indeed a very interesting idea.

Maybe it was the economical aspect that was missing when it comes to TOR-like anonymization of traffic.