From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:58:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0KN6+Jh4Lc1Cs15a1zk6eKeXRZ7aEoeUDE148arvZw1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2Oc+LeJjczG_U9u06gkQRmSP0J8Q_hEJv0oGQLnKFuJw@mail.gmail.com>
> What is the worst-case for an attacker interested in trying to get you
> to saturate your upstream bandwidth or use lots of memory? Set a
> bloom filter that matches everything, and then start requesting old
> blocks in the chain?
It would be slightly worse than shipping a full block but not seriously so.
If you just want to saturate bandwidth or disk IOPS you could probably
just request random blocks over and over again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 15:56 [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 16:22 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 16:35 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 17:11 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 18:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 19:00 ` Matt Corallo
2012-10-24 19:10 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 20:29 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 20:58 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-10-24 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-25 16:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-25 17:01 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:01 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:17 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:21 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-06 19:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 15:15 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 18:38 ` Matt Corallo
2012-11-27 21:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-01-10 15:21 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 3:59 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-11 5:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-01-11 14:11 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 14:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 15:00 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-18 16:38 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-19 9:51 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-01-30 11:09 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-30 11:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:33 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-20 12:44 ` Mike Hearn
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