Author: Anthony Towns 2015-10-19 21:58:01
Published on: 2015-10-19T21:58:01+00:00
In an email thread, Mats Jerratsch discusses potential attacks on the lightning network. He identifies three types of attacks: vandalism, sybil, and pervasive. Vandalism is when attackers randomly join the lightning network with dysfunctional nodes to stop it from happening. Sybil attack occurs when someone targets a user personally and controls all the nodes they connect to. Pervasive attack happens when everyone in some large group simultaneously suffers from a sybil attack. Mats explains that a MITM attacker can build a local network, all pointing to the same node, and do more than just blocking payments. However, there are ways to tell if a node is on the network or not. The article concludes by discussing the benefits of having full Bitcoin nodes to check the anchor.
Updated on: 2023-05-18T15:34:44.029407+00:00