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From: slush <slush@centrum•cz>
To: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:47:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJna-HiXxt5E=FBiDuWMCKrK4C0dcvhHEjTAoK3LGQLafJOqtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C26BFE.1080103@gmail.com>

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Correct, plus the most likely scenario in such attack is that the malware
even don't push such tx with excessive fees to the network, but send it
directly to attacker's pool/miner.

M.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail•com> wrote:

>  Unfortunately, one major attack vector is someone isolating your node,
> getting you to sign away your whole wallet to fee, and then selling it to a
> mining pool to mine it before you can figure why your transactions aren't
> making it to the network.  In such an attack, the relay rules aren't
> relevant, and if the attacker can DoS you for 24 hours, it doesn't take a
> ton of mining power to make the attack extremely likely to succeed.
>
>
>
>
> On 01/23/2015 10:31 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote:
>
> Not a fix, but would reduce the financial risk, if nodes were not relaying
> excessive fee transactions.
>
>  Tamas Blummer
>
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 14:51 slush
2015-01-23 15:24 ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-23 15:40   ` slush
2015-01-23 16:05   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-01-23 16:18     ` slush
2015-01-23 16:52       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-01-23 17:40         ` slush
2015-01-23 18:51           ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-01-23 19:19             ` slush
2015-01-23 16:23     ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-23 16:27     ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-23 16:33       ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-23 16:35       ` slush
2015-01-23 17:49         ` Peter Todd
2015-01-23 15:31 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-01-23 15:42   ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-23 15:47     ` slush [this message]
2015-01-23 16:08       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-01-23 16:12         ` Adam Back
2015-01-23 16:17           ` Adam Back

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