Posts Tagged DoS

A Bitcoin transaction that takes 5 hours to verify

Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on January 8, 2017

In 2013 I found a Bitcoin transaction that takes 3 minutes to verify (CVE-2013-2292) related to O(N^2) hashing in signatures. Since then, the O(N^2) argument has popped up in many contexts, mainly in discussions about a block size increase. Now the problem is partially solved by Segwit. During January 2016 I tried to beat the […]

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CVE-2012-3789 disclosure

Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on January 8, 2013

Given that update ratio from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3+ has probably passed the 80% (*) barrier for a long time, I decided to publish the full CVE-2012-3789 vulnerability report, since that is my obligation with the community. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CVE-2012-3789 I encourage those who are working in the Satoshi client to peer review the report. Also I suggest […]

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