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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a research post that suggests using stealth addresses to enhance privacy-preserving transfers. Buterin detailed that stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today on Ethereum and would significantly boost user privacy on the blockchain network.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buterin Suggests Stealth Addresses as a Solution to the Privacy Challenges in Ethereum Ecosystem<\/h2>\n

Three days ago, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin<\/a>, published a blog post<\/a> that gives a comprehensive overview of stealth addresses and the benefits of using them. Stealth addresses are a feature that is supported by other blockchain networks, like Monero (XMR<\/a>), to increase privacy and anonymity when conducting transactions. The network creates one-time addresses that are not connected to the user\u2019s public address. In the blog post, Buterin insists that \u201cone of the largest remaining challenges in the Ethereum ecosystem is privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buterin describes a number of different ways to generate cryptographically opaque public addresses with a key-blinding mechanism, elliptic curve cryptography, and quantum-resistant security. He also addresses \u201csocial recovery and multi-L2 wallets\u201d and \u201cseparating spending and viewing keys.\u201d Buterin notes that there are some concerns that could affect longer-term usability, like the difficulty of social recovery. \u201cIn the longer term, these problems can be solved, but the stealth address ecosystem of the long term is looking like one that would really heavily depend on zero-knowledge proofs,\u201d Buterin said.<\/p>\n

While Monero uses stealth addresses, the technology is also featured in cryptocurrency networks like Zcash, Dash, Verge, Navcoin, and PIVX. It\u2019s worth noting that some of the aforementioned cryptocurrencies have different implementations of stealth addresses. Concluding his research post, Buterin details that stealth addresses could be easily implemented into the Ethereum network, and wallets would need to adjust to the changes. Overall, supporting stealth addresses would require significant changes to the underlying architecture of Ethereum-based wallets and their current settings.<\/p>\n

For example, current wallets use a different address format. The lite client would need to generate new, one-time addresses for each transaction, and wallets would need to be able to properly encrypt and decrypt the transaction data. \u201cBasic stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today and could be a significant boost to practical user privacy on Ethereum,\u201d Buterin concludes. \u201cThey do require some work on the wallet side to support them. That said, it is my view that wallets should start moving toward a more natively multi-address model (e.g., creating a new address for each application you interact with could be one option) for other privacy-related reasons as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What are your thoughts on implementing stealth addresses in the Ethereum network? Do you believe it would significantly boost user privacy on the blockchain network or do you have any concerns about longer-term usability? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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