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Title: Stanford student projects winter 2011-Security Survey of Bitcoin Post by: theomar on October 24, 2012, 10:31:39 PM There is a study about 2 possible bitcoin attacks. The one is the 51% attack (majority power attack) and the other is the "segmentation" attack.
Is there any discussion about the "segmentation" attack? download the PDF from here "BitCoin -- Ruven Chu and Andrew He" http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs259/WWW11/ Title: Re: Stanford student projects winter 2011-Security Survey of Bitcoin Post by: Esoteric on October 24, 2012, 11:40:43 PM I think the ''segmentation'' they refer to is a variation of a known fault. In a simpler scenario an impatient seller doesn't wait for the full number of verifications before they send the product to the buyer. The segmentation attack seems like a more advanced version, not sure if it has been addressed on the forum already but given this report is from 2011 I would imagine so.
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