Anonymity is not something you either have or don't have. It's always relative to an anonymity set. Mathematically, a ring signature provides a guarantee of anonymity within the ring.
There has been similar research into tracing Zcash transactions between their transparent and shielded pool.
I'm on the Monero Research Lab team. This article, like most media coverage of academic research, ignores much of the subtlety behind the research. The likelihood that a particular output is positively identified…
Anonymity is not something you either have or don't have. It's always relative to an anonymity set. Mathematically, a ring signature provides a guarantee of anonymity within the ring.
There has been similar research into tracing Zcash transactions between their transparent and shielded pool.
I'm on the Monero Research Lab team. This article, like most media coverage of academic research, ignores much of the subtlety behind the research. The likelihood that a particular output is positively identified…