# Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum’s Peer-to-Peer Network

###### tags: `Security`, `Eclipse`, `attack`, `security`, `Ethereum`, `P2P`,`TT`, `***`

## Résumé
Experiences with Eclipse shows that (at the beginning of 2018), Ethereum is much more weak than bitcoin because of two main reasons :Kadamlia P2P protocol and ESCDA public key generator.
In the introduction they compare Ethereum and Bitcoin in different ways and they explain 3 types of attacks:by connection monopolization, by owning the table, and by manipulating time. The implications can be : consensus attack, smart contract attack and attacks on blockchain layer-two protocols(?). They indicate that Ethereum had deployed many of their countermeasures on January 9, 2018.

## Commentaires
The paper is useful, recent and credible. The introduction is worth reading. It gives an idea of what should be avoided in such systems. It could be seen as a security patch for Ethereum.