Gavin Andresen - 2014-10-28 15:24:59

You can mitigate the attacks described in the paper by running bitcoind with more lenient banning behavior.

E.g. put this in your bitcoin.conf:


... so if Tor peers sharing an IP address are banned, they are only banned for eleven seconds.

If you want to live dangerously, you can also set:


... to make it a lot harder for an attacker to cause you to ban naughty IP addresses. But this might make it easier for an attacker to fill up your node's memory with garbage.