From: CANNON <cannon@cannon-ciota•info>
To: adan@stampery•com,
"Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo" <adan@stampery•co>,
"Bitcoin Protocol Discussion"
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Why SegWit Anyway?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:41:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22ba8756-c661-8504-8de3-108626066df0@cannon-ciota.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15502d41-61f2-9a17-a4cf-03cd20a87368@stampery.com>
On 11/21/2017 01:16 PM, Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> 2. SegWit signatures can be cheaper to verify (linear instead of
> quadratic). Prior to this, DoS attacks were possible by using forged
> transactions including signatures which could take several minutes to
> verify.
Where can I find more resources on this described DoS attack?
And how does SegWit prevent this if using SegWit transactions are not enforced?
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-25 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 17:24 Praveen Baratam
2017-11-20 17:39 ` Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces
2017-11-20 17:45 ` Johnson Lau
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2017-11-20 18:04 ` Dan Bryant
2017-11-21 13:10 ` Steve Shadders
2017-11-21 13:16 ` Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo
2017-11-25 15:41 ` CANNON [this message]
2017-11-20 18:07 ` Praveen Baratam
2017-11-20 19:58 ` Johnson Lau
2017-11-20 18:59 ` Gregory Maxwell
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