The P + epsilon Attack
Vitalik Buterin — The P + epsilon Attack (2015)Vitalik Buterin · 2015 · Web pageTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0918 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Kleros (decentralised court) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Schelling-point voting games of the kind Kleros uses are vulnerable to the 'P + epsilon' attack, in which an attacker credibly promises to pay voters for a false answer only if it loses, making that answer each voter's best response at no cost to the attacker.”
Context. Kleros's appeal rounds and stake penalties aim to raise the cost of such attacks.
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Kleros Long Paper v2.0.2
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