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Good Griefing: A Lingering Vulnerability On Lightning Network That Still Needs Fixing
□ Jan 18 2021 □
Published
at Bitcoin Magazine
under tags
attacks
griefing attack
lighting network
lightning
What happens when your Lightning Network routing node is fed with garbage transactions that never resolve? In short, it causes a lot of grief for routing nodes. What was once a smooth, global payment system can be locked up with trivial effort from a savvy script writer. Working in a small team of routing nodes, we successfully ran a test of the attack...