TY - GEN
T1 - Total Eclipse
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications, SSIC 2018
AU - Yves-Christian, Adja Elloh
AU - Hammi, Badis
AU - Serhrouchni, Ahmed
AU - Labiod, Houda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/3
Y1 - 2018/12/3
N2 - In the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin holds the first place in terms of market cap and currency price, which makes it the first target and victim of attack attempts. Indeed, there are various attacks against cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, e.g., block withholding, transaction malleability and the Eclipse attack. The latter, allows an attacker to completely isolate a peer and to monopolize all permanent connections from/to the victim. However, in this attack, the non permanent connections, remains non monopolized by the attacker, which can disturb the attack success. In this paper, we propose (1) a characterization of the misbehavior mechanism applied by Bitcoin and its weaknesses; and (2) a new method to realize the Eclipse attack which monopolizes all the peer's connections, even the non permanent ones, with a minimal number of IP addresses. Our characterization and attack realization, were performed on the main Bitcoin network and on a real client.
AB - In the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin holds the first place in terms of market cap and currency price, which makes it the first target and victim of attack attempts. Indeed, there are various attacks against cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, e.g., block withholding, transaction malleability and the Eclipse attack. The latter, allows an attacker to completely isolate a peer and to monopolize all permanent connections from/to the victim. However, in this attack, the non permanent connections, remains non monopolized by the attacker, which can disturb the attack success. In this paper, we propose (1) a characterization of the misbehavior mechanism applied by Bitcoin and its weaknesses; and (2) a new method to realize the Eclipse attack which monopolizes all the peer's connections, even the non permanent ones, with a minimal number of IP addresses. Our characterization and attack realization, were performed on the main Bitcoin network and on a real client.
KW - Bitcoin
KW - Blockchain
KW - Eclipse attack
KW - Peer-2-Peer
KW - Security
KW - Vulnerability
U2 - 10.1109/SSIC.2018.8556790
DO - 10.1109/SSIC.2018.8556790
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060492834
T3 - 2018 3rd International Conference on Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications, SSIC 2018 - Proceedings
BT - 2018 3rd International Conference on Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications, SSIC 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 October 2018 through 19 October 2018
ER -