A single hostile Electrum server, or a MITM on the one active
connection, could fabricate the block header the draw's entropy comes
from and so pick the winner of every round: headers were accepted with
no proof-of-work check and no link to the previous tip.
app/rounds/draw.py adds header_meets_its_own_target (rejects a header
whose hash doesn't satisfy the difficulty target it claims) and
header_prev_hash. electrum/listener.py's _apply_header now rejects a
header failing either check by raising HeaderValidationError, which
ends the session the same way a dropped connection would so the
listener rotates to the next configured server.
ElectrumListener gains corroborate_header: before the draw uses a
block, it's independently checked against the other configured servers
and needs a majority to agree. rounds/scheduler.py's
_wait_for_next_block now calls this and, on failure, logs why and
waits for a further block instead of ever using an uncorroborated
header.
Certificate/hostname verification stays disabled, so this doesn't
cover an attacker able to MITM every configured server at once -
BUGS.md notes that as not covered.
Suite grows from 151 to 165 tests. BUGS.md moves B-28 to Previously
fixed.
Periodic scheduler (configurable round duration) that closes a round
only once all broadcast bets confirm, waits for the next block after
closing, draws a winner via block-hash-seeded modulo over participants
ordered by broadcast time, triggers the 70/30 payout, and only opens the
next round once that payout confirms. Draw logic is isolated in
draw.py as a deliberately simple, replaceable component.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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