Episode notes
In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Eclipse attacks. More specifically, they discuss the 2015 paper “Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network,” written by Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg, from Boston University and Hebrew University/MSR Israel.
Chapters
00:00:00 The eclipse-attack research paper
00:01:57 What is an eclipse attack?
00:03:22 Double spending against an isolated node
00:05:54 Splitting miners to amplify the attack
00:08:08 Poisoning peer addresses and connection buckets
00:11:43 Crashes, restarts and capturing connections
00:13:05 Address-selection defenses and feeler connections
00:15:10 Remembering peers across restarts
00:16:26 More outbound peers and block-only connections
00:18:10 Satellites, hidden nodes and remaining defenses
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Music:
Song Title: Segwit Sounds
By: The NakamoTones
Album: Citadel Music
Produced by: Bitcoin Audio
