Bitcoin Core Dev exposes Lightning Network flaw, departs project - "All your mempool are belong to us"

Antoine Le lun: "New transaction-relay jamming attack affecting lightning channels" He says new class of replacement cycling attacks puts lightning in a very perilous position. Le lun halting his involvement with the development of the lightning network and

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• Antoine Le lun.
• [bitcoin-dev] Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2010/2011/2012: “All your mempool are belong to us” Le lun: “I’m halting my involvement with the development of the lightning network and its implementations, including coordinating the handling of security issues at the protocol level (I informed some senior lightning devs in that sense before) Closes the old issue which was affected to me at this purpose on the bolt repository: https://://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/772 I think this new class of replacement cycling attacks puts lightning in a very perilous position.

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