Ripple engineer Nick Bugalis said that he and other developers have thought of an anonymous payment system based on XRP to protect users from intruders.
Nik Bougalis, who develops server software for the XRP ecosystem, said in a report at GitHub that it is possible to create a system of "blind labels" that will allow anonymous transactions. They will be a string of numbers that only matter to the intended recipient and seem random to everyone else.
"If the blind tags work, an attacker who is able to view all the transactions won't be able to highlight a pair of transactions that relate to a single transaction," wrote Bugalis.
Cryptographic exchanges store XRP users on a single purse, which is divided into different "wallets". To separate the users' assets, 32-bit source and destination tags are used to determine the recipient of the transaction.
These tags are now publicly available and, if a user frequently conducts transactions, they can be associated with the user. Although some exchanges generate tags for each transaction, the number of tags is limited and it will be difficult to generate a unique tag over time.
According to the proposal Bugalis, users will be able to enable and disable the function of "blind tags" at will. The function will help to preserve not only the anonymity of users, but also the number of tags available for generation.
The system of tags is mainly used by crypt currency exchanges, and it is not yet clear whether users will be able to anonymously send XRP directly to other users.
Recall that in February, the technical director of Ripple David Schwartz (David Schwartz) spoke about plans for ecosystem development. In particular, it will be possible to create steleholders based on XRP.
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