MIT’s Riffle Aims to Compete with Tor for Spot as Anonymity King
Researchers at MIT have devised a blueprint for a new kind of anonymous network, called Riffle, that they believe will be just as secure as Tor, if not more so. Apparently, the proposed scheme is more bandwidth efficient than Tor, and can guarantee anonymity as long there is at least one honest server — a proxy server working to sustain system integrity as opposed to a malicious client attempting to undermine it for personal gain. Riffle: A Tamper-Proof System. According to the project’s white paper, “Riffle: An Efficient Communication System with Strong Anonymity,” the project employs a....
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A new anonymity network called Riffle, which has similar attributes to Tor, has been created by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT News reports a recent discovery of vulnerabilities within the Tor network, which has pushed computer scientists to produce a superior method of anonymous web browsing. Now, the Riffle....
Sunny King may be the mastermind behind two different altcoins, but that doesn't make him any less difficult to pin down. When CoinDesk interviewed the creator of peercoin and primecoin, he refused to chat via any of the normal channels that we use - telephone, Skype, or IRC - and instead restricted himself to either the secure, private online chat program Cryptocat, or the online chat system at peercoin's web site. In the age of NSA spying, we understand the difficulty in finding secure channels - but the question is, why be anonymous at all? Anonymity is understandable in some digital....
Burger King is giving away 20 bitcoin, 200 ether, and two million dogecoin this month in partnership with trading platform Robinhood. “Each entrant may receive up to 21 Prize Codes” that can be redeemed for cryptocurrencies on Robinhood.
‘Burger King With a Side of Crypto’
Fast food restaurant chain Burger King has announced “Burger King with a side of crypto,” its newest offer for Royal Perks members.
To be eligible to participate, customers must “make a minimum $5.00 pre-tax Burger King (‘BK’) food....
Unsung founder Jason King has revealed a partnership with the new Austin-based ride-sharing organization Arcade City during the Crypto Show last night. The two groups will work together with the help of Arcade City’s 30,000 users to lay out the groundwork for Unsung’s application. Unsung & Arcade City Unite to #HackHunger. The Bitcoin community is a....
MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative Receives a Boost With $900,000 Raised for Bitcoin Development Fund
MIT recently announced that it has raised $900,000 for the Bitcoin Developer Fund as a part of its Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). The funds raised would be used to support Bitcoin Core development efforts. Core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan currently work as a team for the MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and, according to DCI director Brian Forde, the Bitcoin Developer Fund is intended to give the three Bitcoin coders an academic platform to work on resolving the block-size debate and other similar technical challenges. "We built out the....