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No, what I mean by weakness is something along the lines of a way its privacy features could theoretically be uncovered more easily than another coin out there, kind of like its Kryptonite, or maybe even something like the circulating supply being an issue in the future if it is infinite and increasing so much and will hold the coin back from greater value increases?
I'll definitely check out those links, thanks for the help, I see its on Cryptopia, is that the best place to buy or trade it? Its definitely not my first exchange place but they seem to have the most volume.
There are of course always some points of attack, theoretically speaking. But XSPEC is at least as good as others, I would even claim "better" than all, in some ways. Assuming that the cryptography is sound (which in the case of XSPEC it is) most exploitable vulnerabilities would be in the transport mechanism. To reduce this vulnerability, XSPEC is built on TOR. But as previously stated, coins which just use TOR for transportation but have to exit the network at the end-points are vulnerable at the exit nodes. XSPEC is fully integrated into TOR, thus never leaves the network. Furthermore, with OBSF4 any adversary would find it impossible to recognize the internet package as being TOR, thus would not be able to sniff the package out or block it.
That said, of course we are talking here about technical vulnerabilities ... exploits through social engineering, well, that of course always remains.
With the release of the new version 1.3.4 by then 8th / 9th of Jan, there will be another push to get XSPEC listed on other exchanges. Until now, the volume was not sufficient to try to spread. And out of principle, there is little appetite to pay horrendous sums just to get listed. Btw, Bisq will also be an option and truer to the privacy concept. XSPEC is listed there, but no volume yet.
