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From: Jonas Schnelli <dev@jonasschnelli.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 MITM
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 08:57:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57591359.4050607@jonasschnelli.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160609014259.GT32334@dosf1.alfie.wtf>


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Hi

> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:24:09AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> Reduction to plaintext isn't an interesting attack vector for an active
>> attacker: they can simply impersonate the remote side.
>>
>> This is addressed via authentication, where available, which is done by a
>> separate specification that builds on this one.
> 
> Are there any links to discussions on how authentication may be done?

I'm currently working on the Auth-BIP which is not worth reviewing it
right now (I will post it to the mailing list once it has been reached a
stable level where it can be discusses).

If you can't wait, here is the current work:
https://github.com/jonasschnelli/bips/blob/35d7e382cdd6955ff42726c3d06c44e33f61ae52/bip-undef-0.mediawiki


Most recent MITM/auth discussion (there where plenty of discussions on
IRC about this topic):
https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-core-dev/2016-04-04/?msg=63463826&page=3


</jonas>


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-09  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-08 23:47 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 MITM Alfie John
2016-06-09  1:24 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-06-09  1:42   ` Alfie John
2016-06-09  6:57     ` Jonas Schnelli [this message]
2016-06-09  7:00       ` Alfie John

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