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Whisper Usage spec should include security considerations #56

Open oskarth opened 4 years ago

oskarth commented 4 years ago

E.g. see https://github.com/status-im/specs/blob/master/status-whisper-mailserver-spec.md#security-considerations

It should include:

DoS attack vector due to (low) PoW
Some known potential darkness issues (topic reuse; light nodes not relaying)
- Also @kdeme found some new ones! https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/105 and https://github.com/status-im/nim-eth/issues/106

cc @adambabik @corpetty @kdeme