Pieter Wuille & Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 16
The Chaincode Podcast
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Using Time Stamps to Infer Topology
Coin scope is the long live connections in using time stamps inferring topology through how those are propagated. You can connect to a peer from another angle and be able to cile at data to see whether they were propagated yet. The information of no t apology, oh, interest think ther have been papers that argueid for making not apology public because makes it available for research. Wouldn't that also make the network easier to attack us? you have to raise new defences, to be clear. But what's a concern here is, if topology is known, that helps a potential partitioning attacker figure out where to focus their efforts.
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