Ring VS Schnorr signatures

In the world of architectural trade-offs, specifically: confidentiality versus base layer performance, and in the current regulatory environment, as global monetary affairs begin to get "more real," I'm now leaning towards greater confidentiality rather than my earlier preference for performance.

Do Ring sigs with Stealth addresses impede blockchain performance or do they mis-align with Bitcoin's longer term dev roadmap?

~ TC

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Today's Topics:

   1. Fwd: node-Tor is now open source in clear (and    modular)
      (Aymeric Vitte)

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:33:32 +0100
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Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: node-Tor is now open source in clear (and
        modular)
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FYI, javascript implementation of the Tor protocol on server side and inside browsers

Not related directly to bitcoin-dev but might be of some use one day to anonymize bitcoin apps (light wallets for example)

-------- Message transf?r? -------- Sujet?: node-Tor is now open source in clear (and modular) Date?: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:02:42 +0200 De?: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail•com> Pour?: tor-talk@lists•torproject•org

Please see https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor and http://peersm.com/peersm2

This is a javascript implementation of the Tor protocol on server side (nodejs) and inside browsers, please note that it is not intended to add nodes into the Tor network, neither to implement the Tor Browser features, it is intended to build projects using the Tor protocol from the browser and/or servers (most likely P2P projects), the Onion Proxy and Onion Router functions are available directly inside the browser which establishes circuits with other nodes understanding the Tor protocol (so it's not a "dumb" proxy), but it can of course establish circuits with the Tor network nodes (see https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor#test-configuration-and-use) and act as a Tor node

It is financed by NLnet via EU Horizon 2020 Next Generation Internet Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies, now open source under a MIT license and we made it modular, it is fast (extensively tested when video streaming was there, especially with bittorrent or ORDB concept) and the total unminified code (https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor/blob/master/html/browser.js) is only 1 MB (so ~600 kB minified) which is quite small for what it does, this is not a browser extension/module but pure js

Possible next steps are to implement elliptic crypto and connections via WebRTC Snowflake (peersm2 above uses WebSockets a bit the way flashproxy was working, ie implementing the ws interface on bridges side), as well as integrating it with "Discover and move your coins by yourself" (https://peersm.com/wallet) for anonymous blockchain search and anonymous sending of transactions from the browser