From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>
To: Wilmer Paulino <wilmer.paulino@gmail•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 19:30:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E3FEBA5-8D59-41DF-BC00-35B6CB9C3E65@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5BidvSesGyofaApZY43tEziHsUcOnu6108p-UYj0Lu1+PFAA@mail.gmail.com>
>> On Mar 7, 2019, at 19:09, Wilmer Paulino via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject") messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.
>
> Nodes in the network generally rely on the assumption that they are connected to at least one honest peer, so we can actually converge on the set of honest peers and ban/disconnect any who send an invalid reject message for a valid transaction.
This implies the reject message is valid only when it is expected (i.e. the sender is knowingly sending invalid transactions), which is presumably useful only in a local development environment.
e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-08 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-06 0:53 Marco Falke
2019-03-06 4:00 ` Dustin Dettmer
2019-03-06 16:49 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-03-07 13:59 ` Sjors Provoost
2019-03-07 17:58 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-03-08 0:52 ` Gregory Maxwell
2019-03-12 17:08 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-03-12 22:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2019-03-13 14:29 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-03-13 14:41 ` Oscar Guindzberg
2019-03-13 22:30 ` Dustin Dettmer
2019-03-14 9:46 ` Aymeric Vitte
2019-03-07 20:52 ` Aymeric Vitte
2019-03-08 0:09 ` Wilmer Paulino
2019-03-08 0:30 ` Eric Voskuil [this message]
2019-10-16 16:43 ` John Newbery
2019-10-17 19:38 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-10-17 20:16 ` Eric Voskuil
2019-10-18 22:45 ` David A. Harding
2019-10-20 5:13 ` Eric Voskuil
2019-10-18 20:53 ` John Newbery
2019-10-21 8:44 ` Andreas Schildbach
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3E3FEBA5-8D59-41DF-BC00-35B6CB9C3E65@voskuil.org \
--to=eric@voskuil$(echo .)org \
--cc=bitcoin-dev@lists$(echo .)linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=wilmer.paulino@gmail$(echo .)com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox