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Denial of service guides #1236

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shawn-zil opened this issue Jul 30, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #1311
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Denial of service guides #1236

shawn-zil opened this issue Jul 30, 2024 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #1311
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shawn-zil commented Jul 30, 2024

In the event of a Sybil attack, Validator nodes can get spammed with garbage blocks. Develop Sentry nodes that envelop and protect the Validator nodes to mitigate the issue.

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@JamesHinshelwood JamesHinshelwood added the Aventurine Required for proto-mainnet launch label Jul 31, 2024
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The consensus was that this task was too wide in scope, the risks of breaking the network is unclear, and the reward may not be worth the effort.

Instead, we will write public documentation with recommendations on how to run Validators in a way that reduces their attack surface i.e. best practices for running Validators; and only to implement specific automated measures to mitigate specific attacks when the risk becomes real, in the future.

@shawn-zil shawn-zil reopened this Aug 12, 2024
@shawn-zil shawn-zil linked a pull request Aug 19, 2024 that will close this issue
@shawn-zil shawn-zil changed the title Develop sentry nodes Denial of service guidelines Aug 19, 2024
@shawn-zil shawn-zil changed the title Denial of service guidelines Denial of service guides Aug 20, 2024
@DrZoltanFazekas DrZoltanFazekas added Agate Required for mainnet launch and removed Aventurine Required for proto-mainnet launch labels Nov 20, 2024
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