eth-netpriv-map

13 atoms 9 properties 3 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.
	A5	Privacy Pass (RFC 9576) Standardized	An IETF standard for privacy-preserving authorization using blind signatures to separate client attestation from client identity.
	A10	TEE-based BuilderNet Development	A decentralized block-building network utilizing Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to process and encrypt order flow.
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.
	A9	ZIPNet Anonymous Broadcast Research	An anonymous broadcast channel (ABC) designed to scale to hundreds of anytrust servers by minimizing computational costs and reducing server bandwidth through outsourced aggregation to untrusted infrastructure.
	A11	Signal-boost (Co-building) Research	A protocol for "secure co-location" that enables untrusted parties to build specific parts of a block collaboratively.
	A12	Dandelion++ Implementation	A lightweight P2P anonymity protocol designed to obfuscate the source IP of transactions.
	A13	Wonderboom Signature Aggregation Research	A high-performance aggregation protocol that utilizes deep aggregation trees and Proposer-Validator Separation (PVS).
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.