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Eclipse attack vulnerability by flooding a node after it reboots #331

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Eclipse attack vulnerability by flooding a node after it reboots#331
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I2-securityThe client fails to follow expected, security-sensitive, behaviour.U2-some_time_soonIssue is worth doing soon.

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opened on Jul 16, 2018

With libp2p, it's possible to do an eclipse attack by flooding a node with incoming requests after it reboots.
This should be countered by having a limit to the number of incoming connections and reserving slots for outgoing connections.

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