You don't necessarily need the heavy weight of SSL. You only need digitally signed envelopes between miner and pool[1]. [1] Unless the pool is royally stupid and will somehow credit miner B, if miner B provides to the pool a copy of miner A's work. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, slush wrote: > AFAIK the only protection is SSL + certificate validation on client side. > However certificate revocation and updates in miners are pain in the ass, > that's why majority of pools (mine including) don't want to play with > that... > > slush > > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > >> On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:02:21 PM Pedro Worcel wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > I was wondering if you guys have come across this article: >> > >> > http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/ >> > >> > The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the BGP protocol to be in a >> position >> > where they can intercept the miner traffic. The concerning point is that >> > they seem to be having some degree of success in their endeavour and >> > earning profits from it. >> > >> > I do not understand the impact of this (I don't know much about BGP, the >> > mining protocol nor anything else, really), but I thought it might be >> worth >> > putting it up here. >> >> This is old news; both BFGMiner and Eloipool were hardened against it a >> long >> time ago (although no Bitcoin pools have deployed it so far). I'm not >> aware of >> any actual case of it being used against Bitcoin, though - the target has >> always been scamcoins. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Infragistics Professional >> Build stunning WinForms apps today! >> Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. >> Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/