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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @0260378aef 28 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Can Antoine Riard’s Lightning Network Proposal Mitigate Channel Jamming Attacks? bitcoin
Oh, interesting, why do you say so? It "jams up" the channel in that there's no room for other payments. Seems like a decent name?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 28 Dec 2022
But that's literally not what jamming is. The word "jamming" already is an attack in computer science/engineering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
I think it's very confusing to give another unrelated attack in computer science the same name.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 28 Dec 2022
There's a big overlap there. In both cases you are filling up bandwidth with the specific purpose of preventing other people using that bandwidth. It's basically the same thing with a different adjective (channel vs radio). I don't understand what you would see as problematic there.
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