A Denial of Service attack against fair computations using Bitcoin deposits

Jethro G. Beekman
Bitcoin supports complex transactions where the recipient of a transaction can be programmatically determined. Using these transactions, multi-party computation protocols that aim to ensure fairness among participants have been designed. We present a Denial of Service attack against these protocols that results in a net loss for some or all of the honest parties involved, violating those fairness goals.

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Year 2016
Peer Reviewed not_interested
Venue Information Processing Letters, Volume 116
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