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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: WTF happened to ripple?
by
JoelKatz
on 22/02/2013, 04:41:18 UTC
I cannot tell from the wiki how Sybil attacks are avoided.
Someone who attempts a Sybil attack either has to give you what you need or not give you want you need. If they give you what they need, then they do no harm. If they stop giving you what you need, it's just like a netsplit. If they don't give you what you need, then you won't be able to operate.

Since all validations and proposals are signed and timestamped, they can't do a reply attack unless you don't have the correct time. And if they did that, all that would happen is that you would think payments weren't completed that actually were.

If necessary, Sybil attacks can be avoided in a more strong way with very slight changes. Connections use SSL internally and you can connect to specific servers trusted not to cut you off from the network.