Bitcoin development team patches its own security patch
Bitcoin's core development team published an update to the bitcoin client this week. Version 0.8.4 provides protection against some core DDoS attacks, and also fixes security bugs introduced during the last patch. The patch fixes an attack that could crash a process in the part of the bitcoin client that dealt with Bloom Filters. These are data structures used to decide whether a piece of data is a member of a larger data set, and were introduced in version 0.8 of the client so that only the relevant transactions would be sent to lightweight clients. They are therefore a key feature in....
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