Network size and the cost benefit of an attack

[drehb]

@mav

Total attacking vaults required may be less than NS * Q, especially for small networks.

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Consensus 28/32 or 8/8?

Since PARSEC publication, it has been mentioned in several topics that an attacker must provide 1/3 of the elders to disrupt the network. But in fact, this would be true only if the faulty elders are uniformly distributed among the sections.In all probabilities a section will be impacted with a much lower ratio of bad elders. I have updated my Excel file implemented a long ago to compute the probable global ratios for disruption with PARSEC threshold (1/3). Maidsafe has indicated that the secti…