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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: Chris Priest <cp368202@ohiou.edu>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:38:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQCVeZUBkuRCn0p1gtZpC4UMQaUx5XtDQMTxEq5U3W9GQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAcC9yvh_BSerOeGka=9T_wOkUDw6bMGj=MWoBP4N16EswcKcw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Chris Priest via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> How does your system prevent against insider attacks? How do you know
> the money is stolen by someone who compromised server #4, and not
> stolen by the person who set up server #4? It is my understanding
> these days most attacks are inside jobs.

Working as designed in that case:  You know #4 is compromised, it
doesn't tell you if it was an insider or an outsider, but in both
cases someone unauthorized or without integrity got access to the
key(s).


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-24 23:38 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 [this message]
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
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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