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What are the various denial of service (DoS) vectors on the Lightning Network?

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This is a draft answer. Alternative answers (as always) are welcome.

Alex Bosworth listed a number of DoS vectors on Twitter. This isn't necessarily an exhaustive list.

  • TCP level flooding
  • P2P protocol flood
  • Too-many graph updates
  • Huge unsettled HTLCs
  • Many slow HTLCs
  • Pathfinding distraction
  • RBF pinning
  • 0-Base PPM floor HTLCs
  • Many channel open proposals
  • Fake Neutrino data
  • KeySend spam

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