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