Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network

By Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. USENIX Security Symposium, 2015

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From blockchain consensus back to Byzantine consensus (2017, methodology): “Note that one could benefit from delaying messages only between the merchant and the rest of the network by applying the eclipse attack [27] to Ethereum.”
A Vademecum on Blockchain Technologies: When, Which, and How (2019, background): “, eclipse and DoS attacks [122], [225]).”
Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies (2017, background): “The possibility of forks also makes it difficult for new users to bootstrap securely: an adversary that isolates the user’s network can convince the user to use a particular fork of the blockchain [28].”
BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains (2017, background): “For example, eclipse attack [30] exploits the application-level protocol to surround the targeted nodes with ones under the attacker’s control.”
Stubborn Mining: Generalizing Selfish Mining and Combining with an Eclipse Attack (2016, background): “[8], and network-level attacks that seek to create network partitions between mining powers, referred to as the " eclipse attack " [13].”
Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing (2016, background): “Later work revealed additional vulnerabilities to transaction reversibility, double-spending, and strategic mining attacks [25, 31, 34, 35, 48, 3].”
Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks (2018, background): “Hiding the network structure boosts privacy and security [45, 56], but also makes it harder to infer properties about the network.”
Tesseract: Real-Time Cryptocurrency Exchange using Trusted Hardware (2017, background): “Assuming a naive enclave implementation, A can mount an Eclipse attack [33] as the following example illustrates: A cuts the enclave off from the Bitcoin network and presents it with a fake blockchain containing a deposit transaction TXfake.”
Untangling Blockchain: A Data Processing View of Blockchain Systems (2017, background): “For example, eclipse attacks on Bitcoin [78] exploit this probabilistic guarantee to allow double spending.”
A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems (2017, background): “k might suer from disruption and a victim’s view of the blockchain will be ltered due to the eclipse attack. Additionally, the eclipse attack is a useful basis for other attacks, as shown in Table 9 [62]. 16 4.5. Liveness Attack Build potential advantage TX Privately hold TX Slow down public chain&a”
Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol (2015, background): “Network The structure of Bitcoin’s overlay network is complicated, and much of it is intentionally hidden to preserve Bitcoin’s security against denial of service (DoS) and to maintain participants’ privacy (see [25, 35] for details on the peer-to-peer network).”
Hawk: The Blockchain Model of Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts (2016, background): “On one hand, researchers have identified attacks on various aspects of the system [29], [34]; on the other, efforts to formally understand the security of blockchain consensus have begun [32], [45].”
Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies (2016, methodology): “We demonstrate the feasibility of each attack against the deployed Bitcoin software.”
A Survey of Distributed Consensus Protocols for Blockchain Networks (2019, background): ““eclipsing”), then the victim will no longer be able to contribute to the extension of the main chain [77].”
Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies (2016, background): “The authors of [66] demonstrate the feasibility of eclipse attacks on the Bitcoin network and discuss the countermeasures.”