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Zcash metadata leakage could reveal IP addresses

Messari

Sep 28, 2019 ⋅  1 min read

According to crypto developer Jonathan "Duke" Leto a bug in Zcash's ($ZEC) code could leak the IP address of full nodes that own a shielded address. The issue impacts users that have shared their shielded address (zaddr) and because it is part of the original code carries through to any Zcash code fork. For more details and mitigation details read the full writeup.

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