bitcoin/bitcoin — pull request #2182 by gavinandresen (2013-01-14 22:10:19+00:00)
Title: Remove IsFromMe() check in CTxMemPool::accept()

Fixes issue #2178 : attacker could penny-flood with invalid-signature
transactions to deduce which addresses belonged to your node.

I'm committing this early for code review; I still need to write up
a test plan.

Executive summary of fix: check all transactions received from the network
for penny-flood rate-limiting before adding to the memory pool. But do NOT
ratelimit transactions added to the memory pool:
- because of blockchain reorgs
- stored in the wallet and added at startup
- sent from the GUI or one of the send* RPC commands (CWallet::CommitTransaction)

The limit-free-transactions code really should be a method on CNode, with
counters per-peer. But that is a bigger change for another day.