From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Robert McKay <robert@mckay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:08:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQyz-xXp-MZFu4n8gMms9sZrUXbsub4HcWG0SsR3tQ89w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06e8ee730ac511617e6c3c4a4bbae4bb@webmail.mckay.com>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Robert McKay <robert@mckay.com> wrote:
> I don't think Sybil attack is the right term for this.. there is only
> one IP address.. one "identity".
The bitcoin protocol is more or less identityless. It's using up lots
of network capacity, "number of sockets" is as pretty close as you
get.
> I'm not even sure that this behaviour can be considered abuse.. it's
> pretty much following the rules and maybe even improving the transaction
> and block propagation.
It isn't relaying transactions or blocks as far as anyone with a
connection to it can tell.
and sure, probably not much to worry about— people have been running
spy nodes for a long time, at least that much is not new.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 2:12 [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic Jeremy
2014-07-28 2:17 ` Jeremy
2014-07-28 2:29 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:40 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 2:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:49 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-28 2:54 ` mbde
2014-07-28 3:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 7:41 ` Drak
2014-07-28 10:16 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-28 11:28 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 12:31 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 14:08 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2014-07-28 16:13 ` s7r
2014-07-28 11:37 ` s7r
2014-07-28 3:13 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 3:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 3:12 Anatole Shaw
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