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From: Tomas <tomas@tomasvdw.nl>
To: Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu32@gmail.com>,
	bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Compact Client Side Filtering for Light Clients
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 10:26:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496996812.1977682.1003827768.27236ACB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO3Pvs_0r1xOL9JMSXf7taG-vFcOanPEh7d4nuQKEPSNLZ6kXQ@mail.gmail.com>


On Fri, Jun 9, 2017, at 05:50, Olaoluwa Osuntokun wrote:
> Tomas wrote:
> > I don't completely understand the benefit of making the outpoints and
> > pubkey hashes (weakly) verifiable. These only serve as notifications and
> > therefore do not seem to introduce an attack vector.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by this. Care to elaborate? 
> 

I will rephrase. The BIP reads:

> Additionally, Full nodes can nearly undetectably lie by omission causing a denial of service which can 
lead to undesirable failure modes in applications whose safety
critically relies on responding to certain
on-chain events.

I understand that the compact  header chain is used to mitigate against
this, but I am unsure about the use 
cases and trade-offs.

For a normal wallet, the only thing I can imagine an attacker could do
is pretending a transaction did not confirm 
yet, causing nuisance.  

An application critically depending on knowing what happens on-chain 
surely is better off  downloading 
the TXIDs, providing PoW security? Gaining knowledge of incoming TXIDs
is nicely solved the payment protocol.

Are there enough use cases that critically depend on pub key hashes
being used on-chain, to make the compact header chain worth its costs? 

Regards,
Tomas


  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-09  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 19:01 [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Compact Client Side Filtering for Light Clients Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-01 21:00 ` Eric Lombrozo
2017-06-01 21:33 ` Matt Corallo
2017-06-01 22:10   ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-02  2:15     ` Chris
2017-06-02  2:28       ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-06-02  3:35         ` Alex Akselrod
2017-06-02 16:07         ` Chris Pacia
2017-06-02  4:49 ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-09  3:59   ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-11-09 23:44     ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-02  6:00 ` Karl Johan Alm
     [not found]   ` <CAE0pnx+RRAP269VeWAcxKbrcS9qX4LS8_6nY_js8X5NtQ22t_A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <CAE0pnxLKYnwHnktTqW949s1AA9uK=6WnVYWmRoau8B1SszzYEg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <CAE0pnxJxHYQ4+2pt3tt=1WZ0-K0vDxGB4KBXY+R=WfktMmATwA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-02 17:55         ` Alex Akselrod
2017-06-05  2:06           ` Karl Johan Alm
2017-06-09  3:03             ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-07 21:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-06-09  3:42   ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-09  4:47     ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-08  9:50 ` Tomas
2017-06-09  3:50   ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2017-06-09  8:26     ` Tomas [this message]
2017-06-19 11:58 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-06-19 12:26   ` bfd
2017-06-19 15:15     ` Tom Zander
2017-06-19 15:49       ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-06-19 15:59         ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-06-19 16:22           ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-06-19 16:36             ` adiabat
2017-06-19 20:49               ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-06-20  7:03             ` Eric Voskuil
2017-06-19 16:07         ` Tom Zander
2017-06-19 16:30           ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-06-19 16:38             ` Tom Zander
2017-06-19 15:43     ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-06-19 16:10       ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-06-19 22:41     ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-06-20  9:52       ` Tom Zander
2017-06-20 13:08         ` bfd
2017-06-20 17:20           ` Adam Back

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