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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:06:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T06-GA5+KNdr_XzP_M4Av8nEsnMXL29tk078wooZg=RZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0puk3CWH1cfNHMSVEoCPaLJJWNJ+H5ObCERZrzMbrTyA@mail.gmail.com>

There was a discussion about using DHT's for transactions a while back
on the forums:
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723.msg7908#msg7908

If you can figure out a scheme that is secure from malicious Sybil
attacks then you're smarter than I am.

And additional protocol messages for lightweight clients is a good
idea, as long as they don't make it a lot easier to pull off a
denial-of-service attacks on a "full" node.

Although I do also wonder if we'll ever run into a problem with full
nodes refusing to answer requests from lightweight nodes (there might
be a tragedy-of-the-commons problem lurking there).

--
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Gavin Andresen



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17  7:41 [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions Eric Lombrozo
2011-12-17 13:13 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-17 13:37   ` Christian Decker
     [not found]     ` <CABsx9T0puk3CWH1cfNHMSVEoCPaLJJWNJ+H5ObCERZrzMbrTyA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-17 19:06       ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2011-12-17 21:49         ` theymos
2011-12-18  0:44           ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18  1:07             ` Jeff Garzik
2011-12-18  1:27           ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 14:16             ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-18 17:09             ` theymos
2011-12-18 18:06               ` Alan Reiner
2011-12-18 18:47                 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-18 19:37               ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-17 19:28     ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-12-17 20:34       ` Christian Decker
2011-12-18 21:19     ` Stefan Thomas
2011-12-19 21:43       ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-20  9:10         ` Wladimir
2011-12-20 10:44           ` Nicolas Fischer
2011-12-21  0:47         ` Kyle Henderson
2011-12-21  8:50       ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21 11:42         ` Eric Lombrozo
2011-12-21 12:41           ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21 16:10             ` Christian Decker
2011-12-22  9:18               ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 10:12               ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-22 10:27                 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 11:52                   ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-22 12:14                     ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-12-22 12:26                       ` Christian Decker
2011-12-22 12:42                       ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 14:46                       ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-25  2:55                         ` Zell Faze
2011-12-21 17:17         ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-22  9:19           ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21  6:19 Eric Lombrozo

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