tersec e78d12beb9
support GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE_MERGE blocks; prevent fork choice stutter via aggregate attestations (#3230)
* support GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE_MERGE-sized blocks; prevent fork choice clock stutter via aggregate attestations

* relay max gossip size to libp2p, use tight uncompressed bounds for fixed-size messages

* Update beacon_chain/networking/eth2_network.nim

Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>

* Update beacon_chain/networking/eth2_network.nim

Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>

Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
2022-01-03 16:20:15 +00:00
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2021-03-26 07:52:01 +01:00
2021-03-05 14:12:00 +01:00

Networking

This folders hold a collection of modules to:

  • configure the Eth2 P2P network
  • discover, connect, and maintain quality Eth2 peers

Data received is handed other to the ../gossip_processing modules for validation.

Security concerns

  • Collusion: part of the peer selection must be kept random. This avoids peers bringing all their friends and colluding against a beacon node.
  • Denial-of-service: The beacon node must provide ways to handle burst of data that may come:
    • from malicious nodes trying to DOS us
    • from long periods of non-finality, creating lots of forks, attestations, forks