If you send your entire balance to a newly generated sub-address, is that the exact same thing is performing sweep_all in the cli-wallet?
Is this effectively churning?
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@Garnish
would think so
i still like better single use addresses and then discarding of the past mnemonic seeds
rather than like, having a single mnemonic seed that if it's compromised then the whole churning history would be on there
but purely on a remote adversary, it should be the same i would think
@Garnish yes. But you don't even have to send it to a new subaddress, as wallet addresses do not appear on the block chain.
Churning: consolidating all your uxtos into one uxto and there by decreasing the risk of a poisoned output attack because after churning future transactions will not have multiple ring signatures with poisoned outputs.
The strategy for churning is to sweep all a couple of times at random moments over the course of several weeks/months depending on your threat model.
sweep_all calls this code: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/master/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp#L11004
This basically loops through all transactions looking for unspent ones and makes a new transaction with those.
Here is a lesson on churning: https://moneroacademy.com/learn/privacy-best-practices/churning-myths-and-reality
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