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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:45:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201408072345.45363.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPS+U9-ze_-gcYh1WNVJ5h8AZ8owoQX=8OUgNcKnaxgvjxZATA@mail.gmail.com>

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07 23:02 [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM Pedro Worcel
2014-08-07 23:45 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2014-08-08  0:29   ` slush
2014-08-08  0:37     ` Christopher Franko
2014-08-08  1:07       ` Pedro Worcel
2014-08-08  2:22         ` slush
2014-08-08  1:01     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08  9:53       ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 18:21         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:27           ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08 18:34           ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-08-09 12:15             ` Sergio Lerner
2014-08-08  3:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08  9:42     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-09 19:39       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-09 19:31   ` Troy Benjegerdes

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