eth-netpriv-map

8 atoms 8 properties 2 composites

A structured map of Ethereum's networking privacy design space: atomic building blocks, their properties, relationships, and how they compose into full protocol proposals.

"The primary threat vector lies within consensus attestations... severing the IP-to-attestation link without compromising the strict latency bounds required by BFT consensus."

Category	ID	Atom	Description
I Identity & Credentialing	A1	ZK Proof of Validator (ZK-PoV) Research	An anonymous credential system that allows nodes to prove they are active beacon chain validators without revealing their specific identity or IP address.
I Identity & Credentialing	A5	Privacy Pass (RFC 9576) Standardized	An IETF standard for privacy-preserving authorization using blind signatures to separate client attestation from client identity.
R Routing & Transport	A2	OHTTP-Style Two-Hop Shuffles Development	A multi-hop routing primitive inspired by Oblivious HTTP that separates identity (Relay) from application data (Gateway).
	A6	Pre-warmed QUIC/TCP Connections Implementation	Maintaining persistent, multiplexed connections to eliminate handshake overhead on the critical path of attestation broadcast.
	A7	Flashnet Anonymous Broadcast Research	A threshold-based anonymous broadcast protocol that uses secret sharing across servers and client-side TEEs to achieve ultra-low latency for mempools and block building.
	A8	Sphinx-based Mixnets Research	A privacy-preserving routing protocol utilizing the Sphinx packet format to construct mixnets.
S Spam & Sybil Resistance	A3	Rate Limiting Nullifiers (RLN) Implementation	A ZK gadget for decentralized spam protection that financially slashes rate-limit violators by revealing their secret key upon double-publishing.
O Traffic Obfuscation	A4	Decoy Traffic Injection Research	Algorithmically generating dummy traffic to flatten network profiles and disrupt statistical analysis by Global Passive Adversaries.