Hi alicexbt,

Routing attacks have actually been studied quite a bit in literature.

You may be interested in the research articles of Maria Apostolaki et al.[1,2], 
Muoi Tran et al.[3], and related works.

Best,

Elias

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.07524.pdf
[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.06254.pdf
[3]: https://allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/tran2020stealthier.pdf

On 9 Jun 2022, at 20:24, alicexbt via bitcoin-dev wrote:

> Hi Bitcoin Developers,
>
> Based on this [answer][1] from 2014, bitcoin nodes are vulnerable to BGP 
> hijacking. There was an incident in March 2022, twitter prefix was hijacked 
> and details are shared in 2 blog posts:
>
> https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/28488
>
> https://www.manrs.org/2022/03/lesson-learned-twitter-shored-up-its-routing-security/
>
> 'nusenu' had written an article about Tor network being vulnerable to BGP 
> hijacking attacks: 
> https://nusenu.medium.com/how-vulnerable-is-the-tor-network-to-bgp-hijacking-attacks-56d3b2ebfd92
>
> After doing some research I found that RPKI ROA and BGP prefix length can 
> help against BGP hijacking attacks. I checked BGP prefix length and RPKI ROA 
> for first 10 IP addresses returned in `getnodeaddresses` in bitcoin core and 
> it had vulnerable results.
>
> https://i.stack.imgur.com/KD7jH.png
>
> Has anyone written a detailed blog post or research article like nusenu? If 
> not I would be interested to write one in next couple of weeks?
> Looking for some "technical" feedback, links if this was already discussed in 
> past with some solutions.
>
>   [1]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/30305/133407
>
>
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