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> 5) If the interception fails, the attacker still ruined the transfer. (DoS) Worse, because MW is so happy to reuse channel ids, with some amount of luck, one
by jwilk 6y ago
> 5) If the interception fails, the attacker still ruined the transfer. (DoS)
Worse, because MW is so happy to reuse channel ids, with some amount of luck, one can ruin multiple transfers in one go:
• Alice runs "wormhole send foo", which generates code "1-revenue-hamlet".
• Mallory runs "wormhole receive 1-bad-code-haha", ruining Alice's transfer.
• Bob runs "wormhole send bar", which generates code "1-enchanting-drunken". (Channel id 1 is now technically free, so why not.)
• Alice's friend, unaware of Mallory's malfeasance, runs "wormhole receive 1-revenue-hamlet", inadvertently ruining Bob's transfer.