Re: [Bitcoin-development] SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE

[slush <slush@centrum.cz>]

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Correct, plus the most likely scenario in such attack is that the malware
even don't push such tx with excessive fees to the network, but send it
directly to attacker's pool/miner.

M.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Unfortunately, one major attack vector is someone isolating your node,
> getting you to sign away your whole wallet to fee, and then selling it to a
> mining pool to mine it before you can figure why your transactions aren't
> making it to the network.  In such an attack, the relay rules aren't
> relevant, and if the attacker can DoS you for 24 hours, it doesn't take a
> ton of mining power to make the attack extremely likely to succeed.
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> On 01/23/2015 10:31 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote:
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> Not a fix, but would reduce the financial risk, if nodes were not relaying
> excessive fee transactions.
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>  Tamas Blummer
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