Yawn.. this isn't nearly as entertaining as I thought it would be.
Is Monero being attacked or not? If someone is performing a TW attack is there any way to tell?
From my experience with time warps attacks it takes a couple of days before the symptoms start to occur, but when they do....the chaos is sweet.
~BCX~
Will the devs keep the exchanges locked for days?
If you were successful and if you know the problem can be fixed, so presumably you would buy XMR cheap and ride it back up to recoup your expenses?
I am contemplating that you really didn't want the hassle and risk of this but you were pushed into it as your reputation was slandered?
Except that his reputation is permanently slandered.
Are you forgetting that BCX said he had an exploit, sandbox tested too, that could steal funds from private keys?
Am I dumb, or is this not what a time warp attack is? Even if BCX succeeds in a time warp, his reputation is still ruined, because he lied.
I must be missing half the story.
n XMR there exist a flaw involving the keyrings that under the right conditions will allow an attacker to steal your wallets and hijack your addresses. To fix this, anonymity will need to be sacrificed.
That doesn't sound like stealing wallets by running a TW attack to reset the coinbase mining rewards, which is another way to erase wallets.
There is one possible interpretation where if it is possible to so mix up the txs with rings during the TW attack, so it makes it impossible to unwind it. But I doubt that is what he meant above.
Note my post yesterday that I sent a new math insight to the devs. I did not confirm anything, but I guess there is an extremely unlikely chance someone found a way to break private keys. I assume the mathematicians are looking at it.
Note the original title of this thread was saying I confirmed the exploit. And when I posted in this thread noting that there are two simultaneous equations, that is when BCX said "exactly" he must do the attack because presumably I revealed too much about the exploit.
The mathematicians showed the two simultaneous equations is equivalent to Diffie-Helman exchange thus not broken. I responded with a third simultaneous equations over an orthogonal number space (afaik multiplication and subtraction do not inhabit the same field). Since then I have discovered another similar insight which I informed the developers about. My current math abilities are such that I don't know if I can be of more assistance on that.