From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:17:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgSPk8QgYq2zcV+G2GoQyo5AfnRj4=+sURr34KZakhqazQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2sBZL=UYAxtjU2Su13Z12wB7s04LxmcyUR2hH51tcN9g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> If you just want to waste bandwidth of nodes you can connect to nodes
> and repeatedly download blocks, or fill the network with fake nodes
> that spam random generated transactions to whoever connects. I don't
> see how to avoid that so it seems odd to worry about a much more
> complicated attack.
Because I can potentially waste bandwidth of all nodes forever (well as long
as users are still scanning blocks with my transactions in them) with O(1) work.
Though I'm not sure how much of a threat is vs just paying 1e-8 btc to lots of
addresses which would only be less bad by some constant factor as worse.
I guess I should try to attack it and see how bad the pollution I can construct
should be. (offline, of course)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 15:56 Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 16:22 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 16:35 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 17:11 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 18:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 19:00 ` Matt Corallo
2012-10-24 19:10 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 20:29 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 20:58 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-25 16:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-25 17:01 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:01 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:17 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2012-10-26 14:21 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-06 19:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 15:15 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 18:38 ` Matt Corallo
2012-11-27 21:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-01-10 15:21 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 3:59 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-11 5:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-01-11 14:11 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 14:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 15:00 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-18 16:38 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-19 9:51 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-01-30 11:09 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-30 11:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:33 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-20 12:44 ` Mike Hearn
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