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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for geutxos message
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:01:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1TRVt1Vs035du50uLwq9V-T37aB916OtTq6bPbdBe+pw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgTA9dmMeSmkMCa0AKpn8VMU8HDOCJQB3zfyb-E4Tmo8rQ@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> In particular, can this document
> specifically call out that a local network attacker can MITM all the
> peers.


It already does, last sentence of the authentication section is:

Querying multiple nodes and combining their answers can be a partial
solution to this, although as nothing authenticates the Bitcoin P2P network
a man in the middle could still yield incorrect results



> (If Mike would prefer, I can send a diff with proposed changes)
>

Yes please.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-16 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-10 14:29 [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for geutxos message Mike Hearn
2014-07-10 14:44 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-16 12:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-16 12:37   ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-16 14:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-16 14:39       ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-16 14:57       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-16 15:01         ` Mike Hearn [this message]

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