The leading privacy blockchain Monero has released an important upgrade that significantly enhances user protection against spy nodes.
Blockchain announced CLI V0.18.4.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ on XCalling it a highly recommended release that improves protection against spy nodes.
Monero relies on a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network where the nodes (computers) connect directly to each other to share and verify transactions and blocks.
Privacy is ensured by many major technologies: each transaction uses unique stealth addresses so that the recipient’s actual address remains hidden; Ring signatures mix the transaction of a sender with other decoy transactions, making it unclear to actually actually send funds; and ring the confidential transactions (ringct) hide the amount moved.
(Ringct hides values by replacing them with a technical process called cryptographic promises. Instead of showing the exact value, each transaction includes proof that the inputs are equal outputs without revealing the numbers. The network reviews these proofs, which proves that no coins are created or lost, while the actual value is not visible or lost, while the actual value is not visible or lost, while the actual value is not visible or lost, while the actual value is not visible in Out of the observers.)
However, a paper published on the Arxiv research sharing platform in September mentioned the growing existence of The non-standard nodes in the network. These nodes cause honest nodes but are likely to be intended for network monitoring and spying on other nodes, thus threatening privacy.
Updating fluorine Fermi holds this challenge by implementing an enhanced peer selection algorithm that reduces the opportunity for users to connect to many nodes within the same IP subnet, a common spy node tactics. It prevents connections with large clusters of weak IP addresses, steering users towards safer nodes.
Sounds too technical? Here is a loose similarity that can make updating easier. Think of Monero as a secret mail service that allows people to send letters anonymously. In this system, nodes act like mail bearers that hold, deliver, and prove these letters as they move to the network.
However, some mail carriers can be sneaky and try to keep track of who sends which letters. Upgrading Fluorine Fermi helps the Monero Mail service avoids smuggling carriers by changing how the letters are being raped and to whom they are sent, making it harder for detectives to follow the route.
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