The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. This violates the security assumptions of (1) the choice of input, outside of the dedicated nonce area, fed into the Proof-of-Work function should not change its difficulty to evaluate and (2) every Proof-of-Work function execution should be independent. NOTE: a number of persons feel that this methodology is a benign mining optimization, not a vulnerability
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:43.380Z
Reserved: 2017-05-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-9230

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:43.380Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2017-05-24T16:29:00.180
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:35:38.603
Link: CVE-2017-9230

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