Jonas Schnelli: Bitcoin P2P Network Encryption & Authentication
Channel: SF Bitcoin Developers
Date: 09/10/2017

Jonas Schnelli, Bitcoin Core developer, spoke about p2p network encryption and authentication.

The current Bitcoin network uses unencrypted communications and unauthenticated connections. Jonas will talk about the BIP151 and BIP150 proposals and why Bitcoin p2p communications should be encrypted. Details about the proposed encryption and authentication schemes and future use cases will be presented.