OSPEAD VS research-lab

Don't understand what the issue with timing analysis of Monero transactions? I'm releasing a PDF that explains the issue in (hopefully) simple terms and presents the solution. It then moves into more technical discussion for those who want to dig into the details.

OSPEAD

Unfortunately, some problems with Monero's multisignature implementation were discovered and the hard fork was delayed in part to fix those problems. Now that the hard fork is back on track, OSPEAD is also back on track.

Hi! Thanks for mentioning my work. I have very preliminary results available from a "dry run" using old data here: https://github.com/Rucknium/OSPEAD

The frustrating thing is that OP is creating unnecessary drama, forcing people like me to respond so that the FUD is cleared up for the broader community -- when I could be spending time on something useful. For the last several hours I had planned to work on my research to improve Monero's resistance to statistical attack and my BCH version of mempool.space, as was requested by u/Nervous-Inspector-14 but instead I had to spend time reading Reddit comments and Matrix chat messages to understand the drama and then respond to it.

One of many open research questions u/Rucknium has listed here (under "Reducing or eliminating 10 block lock with acceptable drawbacks"). There is a chance of it being reduced but its "complicated"

https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/raw/master/wh...

Welcome! I wrote this list of Monero's open research questions: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/94

We also established an official list of topics we want to fund, expanding on the broad space of Monero. This is intended to help people realize actual tasks they may want to complete on behalf of Monero, rather than just the idea of tasks, and extends Monero's open research questions. We're further interested in security proofs, ensuring Monero's integrity, historic and present, and work on arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs. Arithmetic-circuit based membership proofs would remove ring signatures, and the statistical analysis possible on them, entirely, for complete privacy of which output you're spending.

There is actually something called a "truncated address", which is transparent by default. It is mentioned in the original CryptoNote whitepaper on page 8, but I don't think the official wallet software supports it. You could emulate it by calculating the view key manually as a = H(B).

Monero's privacy (i.e. fungibility) guarantees, while being extremely good, are still not mature enough to ossify the protocol yet, see here;