324 - Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol
BIP: 324 Layer: Peer Services Title: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol Author: Dhruv Mehta Tim Ruffing Jonas Schnelli Pieter Wuille Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0324 Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 2019-03-08 License: BSD-3-Clause Replaces: 151 == Introduction == === Abstract === This document proposes a new Bitcoin P2P transport protocol, which features opportunistic encryption, a mild bandwidth reduction, and the ability to negotiate upgrades before exchanging application messages. === Copyright === This document is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. === Motivation === Bitcoin is a permissionless network whose purpose is to reach consensus over public data. Since all data relayed in the Bitcoin P2P network is inherently public, and the protocol lacks a notion of cryptographic identities, peers talk to each other over unencrypted and unauthenticated connections. Neverthel...