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Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol

A v2 connection does an Elligator-style handshake and then encrypts the byte stream, so a passive observer cannot read the messages or easily identify the protocol.

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Authors: Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli and Pieter Wuille
Date: 2019
Publisher: Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli and Pieter Wuille
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0200
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: BSD-3-Clause

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Direct answer

A v2 connection does an Elligator-style handshake and then encrypts the byte stream, so a passive observer cannot read the messages or easily identify the protocol.

Where to read

Official source — BIP 324
Blockchain Lab study, the canonical readingOriginal commentary. Not a transcription of the paper.

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What changed

A reading of the public document. Not a copy of it, and not a claim about a later network that reused the name.

Relationships

Canonical readingBIP 324 study
Related paperDandelion
Related paperEclipse Attacks

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Author–date

Mehta, D., Ruffing, T., Schnelli, J., & Wuille, P. (2019). Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol. Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli and Pieter Wuille. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki

BibTeX

@techreport{bip3242019,
  title = {Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol},
  author = {Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli and Pieter Wuille},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli and Pieter Wuille},
  url = {https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki},
  note = {Rights status: Licensed for redistribution. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/bip324}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: The upstream file is mirrored at /primary/bip324.md under BSD-3-Clause. The canonical file remains the source URL. The desk study is separate.
Rights: Licensed for redistribution
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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