Privacy and Security
summary
Demonstrates a practical method that reliably links validator pubkeys to IP addresses using a modified Lighthouse node, enabling ahead-of-time identification of home validators and targeted DDoS risk after the merge. Proposes a deployed solution: a mixnet that caches and mixes packets (HOPR), where nodes earn tokens via proof-of-forwarding rewards to make transport-layer privacy scalable, claims stronger anonymity than VPN or Tor and describes sender-pays economics.
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