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From: William Yager <will.yager@gmail.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Time
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:21:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG8oi1MNot6RruCu5cLSFAND5noZToPLvTqMP26bwKQGU_2C3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgSncktfkq0J23O04BWhtUD7V7OHCKAyuPbg7gJTKz-rTQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Is breadwallet tamper resistant & zero on tamper hardware? otherwise
> this sounds like security theater.... I attach a debugger to the
> process (or modify the program) and ignore the block sourced time.
>
>
It's an iOS application. I would imagine it is substantially more difficult
to attach to a process (which, at the very least, requires root, and
perhaps other things on iOS) than to convince the device to change its
system time.

That said, the security benefits might not be too substantial.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25  1:14 [Bitcoin-development] Time Ron OHara
2014-07-25  1:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-25  2:35 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-25  2:39   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-25  3:21     ` William Yager [this message]
2014-07-25  5:56       ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-25 10:26         ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-25 14:45           ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-25 16:03             ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-25 16:22               ` Natanael
2014-07-25 18:14                 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-25 10:30 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-27 22:22   ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 17:33   ` Troy Benjegerdes

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