<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Sep 27, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Tony Arcieri <<a href="mailto:bascule@gmail.com">bascule@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Nothing you just said has anything to do with the question at hand: what happens when the latest tree in the log is incongruent with the old one.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd allege: CT should detect that and suggest something is amiss.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Um, OK, that is not the attack being described though.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">And, again, it's no different than Namecoin detecting a fork in the block chain. What does Namecoin do in that case? What actionable information does it present to the user. </div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Forks are protected against by PoW. It is automatic. If the connection is completely censored, and they are shown only a false fork that the MITM is making, that has already been brought up and addressed by myself and Bear in previous emails.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Kind regards,</div><div class="gmail_quote">Greg Slepak</div></div></div></div><div>
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