Exploring Spatial, Temporal, and Logical Attacks on the Bitcoin Network
Networking and Internet Architecture
2019-02-12 v1 Cryptography and Security
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the partitioning attacks on the Bitcoin network, which is shown to exhibit spatial bias, and temporal and logical diversity. Through data-driven study we highlight: 1) the centralization of Bitcoin nodes across autonomous systems, indicating the possibility of BGP attacks, 2)the non-uniform consensus among nodes, that can be exploited to partition the network, and 3)the diversity in the Bitcoin software usage that can lead to privacy attacks. Atop the prior work, which focused on spatial partitioning, our work extends the analysis of the Bitcoin network to understand the temporal and logical effects on the robustness of the Bitcoin network.
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@article{arxiv.1902.03636,
title = {Exploring Spatial, Temporal, and Logical Attacks on the Bitcoin Network},
author = {Muhammad Saad and Victor Cook and Lan Nguyen and My T. Thai and Aziz Mohaisen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03636},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Accepted as a poster for ISOC NDSS 2019