Paper 2014/911 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2014/911 ↗
A Denial of Service Attack against Fair Computations using Bitcoin Deposits
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.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2015-09-30: last updated
- 2014-11-05: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/911
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/911}
}