- From: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:17:40 -0400
- To: public-interledger@w3.org
All, I asked a question during the interledger presentation inquiring about what information is leaked about senders/recipients to connectors. The question was answered from the perspective of an "altruistic" connector, essentially that connectors don't need to know all that much so they'll only use whatever is necessary to help complete a payment. However, I was thinking more of rational or byzantine connectors. Is there anything in the protocol to discourage entities from creating connectors that provide cheap paths to complete payments -- so that they can, for instance, track (and potentially sell) sender or recipient behavior? Is there anything in the protocol to help protect privacy? While it appears that the protocol does a lot to guard against adversaries that seek to attack the payments themselves, but what about other attacks or "abuse" of meta-data? By introducing third parties (connectors) into the payments process, there may be other undesirable behaviors that aren't directly related to payments that need to be mitigated. -- Dave Longley CTO Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://digitalbazaar.com
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