Paper 2014/911

A Denial of Service Attack against Fair Computations using Bitcoin Deposits

Jethro Beekman

Abstract

Bitcoin supports complex transactions where the recipient of a transaction can be programmatically determined. Using these transactions, multi-party computation protocols that aim to ensure fairness among participants have been designed. We present a Denial of Service attack against these protocols that results in a net loss for some or all of the honest parties involved, violating those fairness goals.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Information Processing Letters
DOI
10.1016/j.ipl.2015.09.009
Keywords
bitcoinsecure computation
Contact author(s)
jbeekman @ eecs berkeley edu
History
2015-09-30: last of 3 revisions
2014-11-05: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2014/911
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/911,
      author = {Jethro Beekman},
      title = {A Denial of Service Attack against Fair Computations using Bitcoin Deposits},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/911},
      year = {2014},
      doi = {10.1016/j.ipl.2015.09.009},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/911}
}
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