>Stanford researchers dropping a bomb on ETH 2.0 security that must be addressed.
>Gasper [20] is the current candidate protocol for Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain.
>The Gasper protocol is complex, combining the finality gadget Casper FFG [21] with the LMD (Latest Message Driven) GHOST fork choice rule in a handcrafted way.
The Bomb:
>In [20], Gasper’s finalized ledger is shown to be safe. However, it is claimed to be live only under a non-standard probabilistic network delay model.
>Following the standards advocated by [24] for the design and analysis of blockchain protocols, we analyzed Gasper under a standard security model, and found it to be insecure.
>In particular, we discovered a liveness attack on Gasper in the standard synchronous model where messages can be delayed arbitrarily by the adversary up to a known network delay bound.
>Moreover, because this liveness attack is a balancing attack causing the votes to split between two parallel chains, this attack also denies the safety of the available ledger even when there is no network partition.
>arxiv.org
This is what a clusterfuck dev process gets you.
ETH 2.0 - another Phase 0 Delay is Now Guaranteed
just kill me
It will all be over soon, Ethcucks.
please tell me this isn't true.
no, no, no.
This is going to look especially bad and inompetent as they just pushed phase 0 forward. Thay cannot ignore this.
Didn’t read never selling
atta boy
ETH 2.0 is dog shit. Who cares
>ETH 2.0
So they have time to fix this shit. It's not like finding a security issue on something that's already released. That'd be actually bad.
right, but it means Beacon Chain will be delayed again, and this is no small fix. meanwhile twitter has been orgasming over news that phase 0 was nearly ready.
lol price go up
stay poor
price go up because Vitalik is pretending that this research didn't happen. the shoe is about to drop user, this has to be addressed and a philosophical vitalik tweet will not work this time.
>this is no small fix
Source? Not just read the paper. How do you know this is a big problem.
Just accumulate ALGO and forget about this shitcoin
>eth devs have to come to grasp with the research
takes time
>have to fix the problem
takes time
>have to figure out if that fix broke anything else
takes mucho time because ETH 2 is super complex. i don't know how fundamental the problem is, but i do know that they can't just proceed.
>i do know that they can't just proceed
have a guess how often in history of mankind they just proceeded
Plz fud harder I sold at $380 and it’s pumping furiously please
It’s hilarious that this is all because Vitalik MUST carry over data and state from ETH.
If this was made as a new chain, it would be ready today. I can’t see another result other than making a new chain completely like a more severe version of when ETH classic was abandoned
This beacon chain shit is a nightmare
Trying to keep 1.0 alive in 2.0 just because Vitalik failed to see POW being un scalable and not using POS
If it ends up being a new chain needs to be made abandoning ETH 1 it would make more sense to just migrate entirely to polkadot
It just got sunnier in Colorado.
Eth1 can run as a parachain no problem.
CHAD GAV > Virgin Vitalik every day, all day.
I am just skeptical of this being a massive issue because of the phrasing that it is “safe under a nonstandard probabilistic ...” or whatever it was. It sounds a bit like one of those things that are academic circlejerking not an actual issue when looking at it practically. QRD on what this actually means, bigbrain anons? What is the worst case attack with this, and what are the conditions to make it happen?
I am too much of a midwit to interpret the actual paper.
solid 10's
pass paper bag pass pass
if it were a simple thing to disarm i would expect ETH core devs to do so quickly. have they made any such statements?
VITALIK'S GONNA FREAK
Not as far as I know. Have they at all acknowledged this?
How fucked are we, bobros?
it's such a joke. people should just use FTM, it's what ETH was supposed to be.
Sweet I still have more time to mine. This defi scam stuff is great for miners like me. Easy money, no effort required, all I need to do now is set up my actual mining rig this weekend and go all in at 160 MH.
bump