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Re-register in the same epoch attack #110

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vqhuy opened this issue Oct 25, 2016 · 0 comments
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Re-register in the same epoch attack #110

vqhuy opened this issue Oct 25, 2016 · 0 comments
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vqhuy commented Oct 25, 2016

Currently, if the key server doesn't use TBs, a malicious client can attempt to equivocate about the name by re-registering the same username with a different key.
This attack can be mitigated by lookup in the current tree of the pad. The server could return a ErrorNameExisted along with a proof of absence (from the latest committed STR).

However, the client doesn't get any proof that the name already exists, and until the current tree is committed. A malicious server can now easily cheat and give clients false information about which names exist, don't exist etc and they wouldn't have any proof.

It means that while we don't have a better solution for registration promises, the key server would be forced to use TBs.

See #109.

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