Re: [Lightning-dev] Time-Dilation Attacks on Offchain Protocols

2019-12-09 Thread Matt Corallo
Nice writeup! In further in-person discussions today, it was noted that the key last-resort fallback Bitcoin Core has to week out peers in case of an Eclipse Attack does not protect from this style of attack. While it is only of limited concern for most Bitcoin Core users, it very much may expose

[Lightning-dev] Time-Dilation Attacks on Offchain Protocols

2019-12-09 Thread Antoine Riard
Time-Dilation Attacks on Offchain Protocols === Lightning works on reversing the double-spend problem to a private state between parties instead of being a public issue verified by every network peer. The security model is based on revocation of previous states and