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From: Jay F <jayf@outlook•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] On-going data spam
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 04:17:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP1397D392A87B5A2E21636B8C8C60@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130409110911.GA25700@savin>

On 4/9/2013 4:09 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> hack by changing the protocol. Nodes can serve up blocks encrypted under a
>> random key. You only get the key when you finish the download. A blacklist
> NAK
>
> Makes bringing up a new node dependent on other nodes having consistent
> uptimes, particularly if you are on a low-bandwidth connection.
>
>> can apply to Bloom filtering such that transactions which are known to be
>> "abusive" require you to fully download the block rather than select the
>> transactions with a filter. This means that people can still access the
> NAK
>
> No blacklists
>
It depends on how clever the spammers get encoding stuff. If law 
enforcement forensic tools can pull a jpeg header + child porn out of 
the blockchain, then there's a problem that needs mitigation.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09  1:22 Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09  9:28 ` Peter Todd
2013-04-09 10:42 ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 11:09   ` Peter Todd
2013-04-09 11:17     ` Jay F [this message]
2013-04-09 11:34       ` Robert Backhaus
2013-04-09 14:14     ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 14:39   ` Caleb James DeLisle
2013-04-09 18:56     ` steve
2013-04-09 19:25     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-09 19:43       ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 14:50   ` Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09 14:53     ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 15:01       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09 17:58       ` Peter Todd

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