[bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 MITM

Alfie John alfie at alfie.wtf
Thu Jun 9 01:42:59 UTC 2016


On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:24:09AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Reduction to plaintext isn't an interesting attack vector for an active
> attacker: they can simply impersonate the remote side.
>
> This is addressed via authentication, where available, which is done by a
> separate specification that builds on this one.

Are there any links to discussions on how authentication may be done?

Thanks,

Alfie

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