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General Discussion / Tx hijack to modify output
« on: December 24, 2013, 09:33:32 am »
I probably should have asked the question somewhere else, but I feel people here may also want to help me understand this little tech-detail.
I was wondering the whole afternoon today whether it's possible for a peer to change transaction outputs (so all money goes to a middleman address) before relaying the modified version of the transaction to the network? I don't see any mechanism to guarantee the integrity of transactions. This seems to be a problem especially when a client connects just to a couple of peers.
I was wondering the whole afternoon today whether it's possible for a peer to change transaction outputs (so all money goes to a middleman address) before relaying the modified version of the transaction to the network? I don't see any mechanism to guarantee the integrity of transactions. This seems to be a problem especially when a client connects just to a couple of peers.