On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: > If you just want to waste bandwidth of nodes you can connect to nodes > and repeatedly download blocks, or fill the network with fake nodes > that spam random generated transactions to whoever connects. I don't > see how to avoid that so it seems odd to worry about a much more > complicated attack.
Because I can potentially waste bandwidth of all nodes forever (well as long as users are still scanning blocks with my transactions in them) with O(1) work. Though I'm not sure how much of a threat is vs just paying 1e-8 btc to lots of addresses which would only be less bad by some constant factor as worse. I guess I should try to attack it and see how bad the pollution I can construct should be. (offline, of course) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
