From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko@zooko•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Duplicate transactions vulnerability
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:47:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229164747.GA581@vps7135.xlshosting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANdZDc7c5D7YmAn7GUO+--9U2Z3Lz-CR9E-QsKriVeMoudeipA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:41:31PM -0700, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> Could you spell out the attack explicitly? Presumably there aren't a
> lot of people with the "malice energy" to perform the attack but not
> to figure it out for themselves. I, however, have the "niceness
> energy" to think about it for a few minutes but not to figure it out
> for myself. If in your opinion it is realistically dangerous to post
> it publicly, would you be so kind as to include me in the private
> sharing of the explanation?
It's not exactly a secret anymore, as the patch also references it.
Russell O'Connor described the attack on his blog:
http://r6.ca/blog/20120206T005236Z.html
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 16:48 Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 17:12 ` Brautigam Róbert
2012-02-28 17:18 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 18:10 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-02-28 18:23 ` Luke-Jr
2012-02-28 20:24 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 20:35 ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29 1:41 ` Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
2012-02-29 16:47 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2012-02-29 17:02 ` Amir Taaki
2012-02-29 21:00 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-02-29 22:05 ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29 22:38 ` Matt Corallo
2012-02-29 22:46 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-02-29 23:00 ` Ben Reeves
[not found] ` <20120229232029.GA6073@vps7135.xlshosting.net>
2012-02-29 23:45 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-01 10:15 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 13:09 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-03-01 17:20 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-02 1:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-03 16:41 ` Pieter Wuille
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