Wired reports privacy is not guaranteed in digital money transactions. An independent researcher recently identified an attack that demonstrates a limitation in the privacy model of Mimblewimble, a privacy technology designed for cryptocurrencies, and Stanford University's Florian Tramèr recently published a set of attacks on digital currencies Monero and Zcash. “When you look at the bigger picture, how these systems interact with each other, you realize that keeping things anonymous and private is much, much harder than just getting the cryptographic aspects right,” Tramèr said.
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