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Re: Are there any tools for simulating attacks on Bitcoin network?
by
Gavin Andresen
on 28/02/2012, 16:15:18 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (2)
Doesn't gavinandresen have a protocol fuzzer?

https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcoin-git/tree/fuzzer

... but it is pretty narrowly targeted at stress-testing the transaction validity code.

Last year at the NYC conference I mentioned that I would really like to see somebody who knows a lot more about network simulation than I do develop tools to help test proposed protocol changes, simulate Sybil or DoS attacks, etc.

I'd still really like to see that...