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Add DDoS/Spam protection to consensus gossip #1115
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I2-security
The client fails to follow expected, security-sensitive, behaviour.
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Currently we keep messages in the consensus gossip for up to five minutes, however if any of the authority nodes goes rogue and floods the network, we might run out of memory or it could delay actually useful messages.
We should add some generic per-client throttle mechanism to
ConsensusGossip
(insubstrate-network
) of forwarding messages to prevent this.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: