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Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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The Man in the Middle Attack

The proposal contains a countermeasure to that risk. We could get on a phone call and we could look up this thing called the session ID. And if that number is the same, then we know we are directly connected to each other. If the number is different, that means there's somebody in between us. The man in the middle attack is still possible, but this is called an active attack.

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