From: Alfie John <alfie@alfie•wtf>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 MITM
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 23:47:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160608234728.GQ32334@dosf1.alfie.wtf> (raw)
Hi folks,
Overall I think BIP 151 is a good idea. However unless I'm mistaken, what's to
prevent someone between peers to suppress the initial 'encinit' message during
negotiation, causing both to fallback to plaintext?
Peers should negotiate a secure channel from the outset or backout entirely
with no option of falling back. This can be indicated loudly by the daemon
listening on an entirely new port.
Alfie
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Alfie John
https://www.alfie.wtf
next reply other threads:[~2016-06-08 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-08 23:47 Alfie John [this message]
2016-06-09 1:24 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-06-09 1:42 ` Alfie John
2016-06-09 6:57 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-09 7:00 ` Alfie John
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