From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea•es>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:33:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgR6LkFzJQ+SKwyBQam3XWkKhrJpnGpvofhDOFASXdhmQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53471A35.3040805@jcea.es>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea•es> wrote:
> On 11/04/14 00:15, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
>> Checkpoints will go away, eventually.
> Why?. The points in the forum thread seem pretty sensible.
Because with headers first synchronization the major problems that
they solve— e.g. block flooding DOS attacks, weak chain isolation, and
checking shortcutting can be addressed in other more efficient ways
that don't result in putting trust in third parties.
They also cause really severe confusion about the security model.
Instead you can embed in software knoweldge that the longest chain is
"at least this long" to prevent isolation attacks, which is a lot
simpler and less trusting. You can also do randomized validation of
the deeply burried old history for performance, instead of constantly
depending on 'trusted parties' to update software or it gets slower
over time, and locally save your own validation fingerprints so if you
need to reinitilize data you can remember what you've check so far by
hash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-10 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 11:37 Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:57 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 12:10 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 14:19 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 16:23 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:28 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 16:47 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:54 ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-10 16:56 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:59 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 17:06 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 18:19 ` Paul Rabahy
2014-04-10 18:32 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 20:12 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-10 20:29 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 19:36 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-10 21:34 ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:15 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-10 22:24 ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:33 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2014-04-10 16:52 ` Ricardo Filipe
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