pinata update since money may be reused this year

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Hannes Mehnert 2018-01-14 17:19:59 +01:00
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@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ X.509, TCP/IP, of the virtual machine image is 4MB, which is less than 4% of a
comparable system using a Linux kernel and OpenSSL.
When a TLS handshake is successfully completed with mutual authentication, the
Piñata transmits the private key to a bitcoin wallet which is filled with ~10BTC.
Piñata transmits the private key to a bitcoin wallet which initially contained
10BTC. In 2018, most of them will be reused for other projects.
On startup, the Piñata generates its certificate authority on the fly, including
certificates and private keys. This means that only the Piñata itself contains
@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ an exploitable flaw in any software layer (OCaml runtime, virtual network
device, TCP/IP stack, TLS library, X.509 validation, or elsewhere) to complete the challenge.
The Piñata is online since February 2015, and even though thousands of unique IP
addresses initiated connections, the wallet still contains the 10 BTC.
addresses established connections and initiated TLS handshakes, no bitcoins were
taken. Looks like its security is decent or obscure enough.
By using a Bitcoin wallet, the Piñata is a transparent bug bounty. Everybody
can observe (by looking into the Bitcoin blockchain) whether it has been