Stanford student projects winter 2011-Security Survey of Bitcoin

[theomar]

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/



                                         

[Esoteric]

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.