Lightning Sucks 2: Electric Boogaloo Elias Rohrer Talks Timing Attacks

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Lightning Sucks 2: Electric Boogaloo Elias Rohrer Talks Timing Attacks - LNJ033

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This is the 33rd episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this special episode we have guest co-host Shinobi of BlockDigest! PHD Payment Channel researcher Elias Rohrer joined us for this episode to talk about his research paper. We cover not only some of the drawbacks on the Lightning Network, but also possible ways to overcome the centralized nature of the Lightning Network.

We talk about:

Elias background
Threats to Lightning Network Privacy
Elias’ Paper
Adversary Models
Challenges in the Lightning Network
Threats from Blockchain Analysis
The Costs of Good Opsec
Timing attacks

Elias’ Twitter: Elias Rohrer (@_tnull)

Elias’ paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.12143.pdf

BlockDigest where Shinobi Talks about Elias’ Paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmHBXMHD76M&t

Shinobi’s Twitter: Prince of the Universe |SHI256| (@brian_trollz)

Shinobi’s Previous LNJ Episode: sicksub.network/LNJ011

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