Team Members: Ryan Anderson, Luke Gessler, and Sam Prestwood
This is the code repository for our final project for CS 4501: Crypto Currency Cabal.
BitSniffer is a tool for quantifying the linkability of Bitcoin addresses. The tool can perform two types of operations:
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When one address sends BTC to a second address via a mixing service, the tool searches the blockchain for a transaction path between the addresses and calculates the size of the anonymity set for the output address.
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For two arbitrary addresses, the tool calculates a set of metrics for estimating the linkability between the two addresses.
Clone this repository, then, in the root code directory, run:
python3 webapp.py
This will launch a web interface that can be accessed in your browser at http://localhost:8080
For more information about the theoretical aspects of this project, consult our write-up.
This project is licensed under the MIT license:
Copyright (c) 2015 Ryan Anderson, Luke Gessler, and Sam Prestwood
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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