From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Newly introduced DoS
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:23:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTG43u3i=aQoFZPgFgTLh1peJiomnvXjcPeV3p5zEFsQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109271608.07053.luke@dashjr.org>
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
> Is it certain that it cannot be triggered by a peer having some huge number
> more blocks than you?
Might be better to have a global flag that indicates when the node
thinks its current with the network (this could have other UI impacts,
like letting the user know if they send and their connectivity looks
non-current), and only enforce this check when the node believes that
its current.
Currency could be
=height>last_checkpoint&&top_timestamp>now()-safe_amount; with
safe_amount to be high enough that it's very unlikely to be falsely
triggered by an improbably long gap.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 19:17 [Bitcoin-development] Newly introduced DoS Luke-Jr
2011-09-26 20:47 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-26 20:55 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-26 21:38 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-26 21:53 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-26 22:34 ` theymos
2011-09-27 0:07 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-27 20:08 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-27 20:23 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2011-09-27 20:39 ` Gavin Andresen
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