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From: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Small Nodes: A Better Alternative to Pruned Nodes
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 10:03:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJowKg+UTKeU0Dj5pJbtw+LZtO9kn5LBJum9Akd11zCsW+6o4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgT5pJh68xufv_81+N8K0asxH16WdX7PLLXGjRPmJOkYFQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> But as you've observed, the failure probabilities are rather high,
> especially if an active attacker targets nodes carrying less commonly
> available blocks.

Wouldn't the solution be for nodes to use whatever mechanism an attacker
uses to determine less commonly available blocks and choose to store a
random percentage of them as well as their deterministic random set?

IE X blocks end of chain (spv bootstrap), Y% deterministic random set,  Z%
patch/fill set to deter attacks

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-17  6:54 David Vorick
2017-04-17  7:11 ` Danny Thorpe
2017-04-17  7:27   ` David Vorick
2017-04-20 15:50   ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-20 23:42     ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-04-21 13:35   ` David Kaufman
2017-04-21 15:58     ` Leandro Coutinho
2017-04-17 10:14 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-04-19 17:30   ` David Vorick
2017-04-20  9:46     ` Tom Zander
2017-04-20 20:32       ` Andrew Poelstra
2017-04-21  8:27         ` Tom Zander
2017-04-20 11:27     ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-04-18  7:43 ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-04-18 10:50 ` Tom Zander
2017-04-18 13:07   ` Tier Nolan
2017-04-18 23:19     ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-04-19  4:28       ` udevNull
2017-04-19 13:47         ` Angel Leon
2017-04-21 20:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-23 16:27   ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-05-03 14:03   ` Erik Aronesty [this message]
2017-05-03 19:10     ` Natanael
2017-05-03 22:45       ` Aymeric Vitte

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