[Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for geutxos message

Mike Hearn mike at plan99.net
Wed Jul 16 15:01:20 UTC 2014


>
> 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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