Quote from: AnnihilaT on August 24, 2011, 02:08:17 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on August 24, 2011, 01:31:26 PM

Quote from: AnnihilaT on August 24, 2011, 08:43:17 AM

Indeed... tin foil hat time... what did we miss? You dont have to release details but please tell us the gist? Exploit in lukes pool or with bitcoin?

He asked what was to stop a certain attack against Bitcoin rendering it unusable by the average Joe. There really is nothing to stop it, so we agreed it was best kept quiet.

Luke-Jr, Please tread very carefully with this one... Security thru obscurity is NO security at all.... if there is no defense against this i sure hope the whole bitcoin dev teams knows about this and are working on it as we speak... can you comment on that? Its really not good form to keep these things private. Who does it affect? Users? Miners? Pool Operators? Everyone? Some disclosure needs to be done so that people can protect themselves depending on what type of vulnerability we are talking about.

I really dont think this should be kept completely quiet. SOME information needs to be disclosed!

It only potentially interferes with less competent computer users from using Bitcoin. There are no security implications for actual usage.