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Introduce a maximum size for locators.

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The largest sensible size for a locator is log in the number of blocks.
 But, as noted by Coinr8d on BCT a maximum size message could encode a
 hundred thousand locators.  If height were used to limit the messages
 that could open new attacks where peers on long low diff forks would
 get disconnected and end up stuck.

Ideally, nodes first first learn to limit the size of locators they
 send before limiting what would be processed, but common implementations
 back off with an exponent of 2 and have an implicit limit of 2^32
 blocks, so they already cannot produce locators over some size.

This sets the limit to an absurdly high amount of 101 in order to
 maximize compatibility with existing software.
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Gregory Maxwell
2018-08-07 20:37:45 +00:00
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@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ static const int TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 20 * 60;
static const int FEELER_INTERVAL = 120;
/** The maximum number of entries in an 'inv' protocol message */
static const unsigned int MAX_INV_SZ = 50000;
/** The maximum number of entries in a locator */
static const unsigned int MAX_LOCATOR_SZ = 101;
/** The maximum number of new addresses to accumulate before announcing. */
static const unsigned int MAX_ADDR_TO_SEND = 1000;
/** Maximum length of incoming protocol messages (no message over 4 MB is currently acceptable). */