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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 04:42:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92F89733-809F-40DC-B315-1323DE550BE2@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRTgymPn+YU61N0rR=PRkQbsUHxXt6RySqJbGTCjwuWMg@mail.gmail.com>



On 25 August 2016 14:26:21 GMT-04:00, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev
><bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> If however
>> he is planning to use it as a foothold to further compromise your
>> company, send spam or similar, he will likely try to avoid these
>> tripwires. [...]
>
>Depends on the value of their activity compared to the value of the
>coins.
>Spamming doesn't pay much.
>
>Covert tripwires would obviously be better, but if shared tripwires
>allow you to have 100x the funds available it could be a good
>trade-off.

Also, having a overt tripwire doesn't preclude having covert tripwires as well.


In any case, this all deserves a Standard™ to make sure intruders know where to look to find the funds. Maybe /var/honeypot...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-28  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-24  1:46 [bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection Peter Todd
2016-08-24 15:37 ` Matthew Roberts
2016-08-24 16:29   ` Jimmy
2016-08-24 19:18     ` Peter Todd
2016-08-24 19:22   ` Peter Todd
2016-08-24 23:03     ` Chris Priest
2016-08-24 23:38       ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-25  2:54 ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-25 14:27   ` Christian Decker
2016-08-25 18:26     ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-28  2:50       ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-28  4:42       ` Peter Todd [this message]
2016-08-28  4:37   ` Peter Todd
2016-08-31 19:48     ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-31 20:01       ` Peter Todd

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