The lack of auth and encryption is only part of the problem with Stratum's implementation. At Toorcamp 2014 I presented about the vulnerabilities discovered wh

The lack of auth and encryption is only part of the problem with Stratum's implementation. At Toorcamp 2014 I presented about the vulnerabilities discovered when looking into common miners and their impact on the network. More details available in the associated white paper: http://www.dejavusecurity.com/blog/2014/7/15/bitcoin-research-whitepaper-announcement http://www.dejavusecurity.com/blog/2014/7/15/bitcoin-researc...