> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Tao Effect <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > How? > > An attacker with a privileged network position can MitM the traffic of a > client (let's call her Alice), intercept the transaction to register a name > in the Namecoin block chain, and register the name themselves with an > attacker-controlled key. > > Since names are first-come-first-served, so long as the MitM can reach a > destined-to-be-longer fork of the Namecoin blockchain than Alice, they can > get the name first before Alice does.
Heh. OK. What you are describing is not an attack IMHO, but the definition of first-come-first-served. It is by no means a real “security” issue for Namecoin. - Greg -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.
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