Commit Graph

7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Péter Szilágyi
971702e7a1 p2p/discovery: fix broken tests due to API update 2015-04-24 11:23:20 +03:00
Felix Lange
de7af720d6 p2p/discover: implement node bonding
This a fix for an attack vector where the discovery protocol could be
used to amplify traffic in a DDOS attack. A malicious actor would send a
findnode request with the IP address and UDP port of the target as the
source address. The recipient of the findnode packet would then send a
neighbors packet (which is 16x the size of findnode) to the victim.

Our solution is to require a 'bond' with the sender of findnode. If no
bond exists, the findnode packet is not processed. A bond between nodes
α and β is created when α replies to a ping from β.

This (initial) version of the bonding implementation might still be
vulnerable against replay attacks during the expiration time window.
We will add stricter source address validation later.
2015-04-01 17:00:12 +02:00
Felix Lange
170eb3ac68 p2p/discover: map listening port using configured mechanism 2015-02-13 11:39:32 +01:00
Felix Lange
9915d3c3be p2p/discover: deflake UDP tests 2015-02-09 11:02:32 +01:00
Felix Lange
8564eb9f7e p2p/discover: add node URL functions, distinguish TCP/UDP ports
The discovery RPC protocol does not yet distinguish TCP and UDP ports.
But it can't hurt to do so in our internal model.
2015-02-07 00:12:23 +01:00
Felix Lange
739066ec56 p2p/discover: add some helper functions 2015-02-06 00:00:36 +01:00
Felix Lange
12224c7f59 p2p/discover: new package implementing the Node Discovery Protocol 2015-02-06 00:00:36 +01:00