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From: slush <slush@centrum.cz>
To: Pedro Worcel <pedro@worcel.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 04:22:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJna-HiGtOt5x4gw7Ea8XP1zQM32H9PmyQOuu7ekNfN4E7BCfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPS+U99pnqrGiYb-1MMf_GjR2eCiwaX3MvDHX3kGjepEf0=4nQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Although 140 BTC sounds scary, actually it was very minor issue and most of
miners aren't even aware about it.

TLS would probably make the attack harder, that's correct. However if
somebody controls ISP routers, then MITM with TLS is harder, yet possible.

slush


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Pedro Worcel <pedro@worcel.com> wrote:

>
> Seems to me that it would correctly mitigate the attack mentioned in the
> wired article. I am surprised that miners are not worried about losing
> their profits, I would personally be quite annoyed.
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-08  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07 23:02 [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM Pedro Worcel
2014-08-07 23:45 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08  0:29   ` slush
2014-08-08  0:37     ` Christopher Franko
2014-08-08  1:07       ` Pedro Worcel
2014-08-08  2:22         ` slush [this message]
2014-08-08  1:01     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08  9:53       ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 18:21         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:27           ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08 18:34           ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-08-09 12:15             ` Sergio Lerner
2014-08-08  3:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08  9:42     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-09 19:39       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-09 19:31   ` Troy Benjegerdes

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