> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
