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Eclipse attacks on blockchains and how to stop them

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Blockchain clients running on less powerful devices impede the communication of nodes

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Thus creating a vulnerability to eclipse attacks

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Once compromised, the hacker only needs to work with a small set of nodes that the infected node communicates with.

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Eclipse attacks isolate a node on the network and eclipse its view of the other nodes

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The attacker then floods the network with illegitimate nodes, which then communicate with the infected node.

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Once the secluded node is disconnected from the blockchain ledger, attackers can then falsely validate transactions on the blockchain.

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However, the efficacy of the eclipse attack depends on the efficiency of the attacked blockchain itself.

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Eclipse attacks can be executed on blockchains with bandwidth limitations that prevent all nodes from communicating with each other

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Eclipse attacks aim to misdirect payments between parties. Therefore, peer-to-peer payment systems are prone to these kinds of attacks.

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