IACR News item: 05 November 2014
Jethro Beekman
ePrint Report
Bitcoin supports complex transactions where the recipient of a transaction can be programmatically determined.
Using these transactions, multi-party computation protocols that aim to ensure fairness among participants have been designed.
We present a Denial of Service attack against these protocols that results in a net loss for some or all of the honest parties involved, violating those fairness goals.
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