Re:Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw
by EthanHeilman on Saturday March 03, 2018 @03:37PM
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>Not if I'm looking at the block times or PoS participation rates. The attacker can feed me their own fork while preventing me from seeing the actual highest-difficulty chain, but their fork will be suspiciously weak, so I'll know not to trust it.
Would be really interested to read a paper that invents a confirmation sureness metric based on distances between block times which takes into account eclipse attacks.
Would be really interested to read a paper that invents a confirmation sureness metric based on distances between block times which takes into account eclipse attacks.