Archive for June, 2018
Leaf-Node weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design
Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on June 9, 2018
This document describes a weakness in Bitcoin Design that reduces the security of SPV proofs and therefore SPV Wallets. The weakness was discovered by me on August 2017, but during the responsable disclosure process I learnt it was previously known by some prominent members of the Bitcoin Core team. Using this weakness an attacker can […]
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