From: Jeremy <jlrubin@MIT•EDU>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Cc: alex@stamos•org
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:12:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD5xwhhKKooGBfSY3nZzMmS=3WD=EdX9FQ7mZtQL3fkikuwyLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hey,
There is a potential network exploit going on. In the last three days, a
node (unnamed) came online and is now processing the most traffic out of
any tor node -- and it is mostly plaintext Bitcoin traffic.
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=0d6d2caafbb32ba85ee5162395f610ae42930124
Alex Stamos (cc'ed) and I have been discussing on twitter what this could
mean, wanted to raise it to the attention of this group for discussion.
What we know so far:
- Only port 8333 is open
- The node has been up for 3 days, and is doing a lot of bandwidth, mostly
plaintext Bitcoin traffic
- This is probably pretty expensive to run? Alex suggests that the most
expensive server at the company hosting is 299€/mo with 50TB of traffic
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Jeremy Rubin
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next reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 2:12 Jeremy [this message]
2014-07-28 2:17 ` Jeremy
2014-07-28 2:29 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:40 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 2:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:49 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-28 2:54 ` mbde
2014-07-28 3:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 7:41 ` Drak
2014-07-28 10:16 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-28 11:28 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 12:31 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 14:08 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 16:13 ` s7r
2014-07-28 11:37 ` s7r
2014-07-28 3:13 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 3:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 3:12 Anatole Shaw
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