A mitigated attack is incorrectly honored in documents

[SSgumS]

Hello
Doesn't Remove equivocating validators from fork choice consideration pull request mitigate the attack mentioned here?

[corwintines]

@jmcook1186 do you happen to know?

[jmcook1186]

Hi - no unfortunately not. The removal of equivocating validators from the fork choice rule prevents certain bouncing and balancing attacks that can be launched with a small amount of the total stake. However, if someone has 34% of the stake they can equivocate with all their validators when it is their turn to propose a block. If they time the block releases just right, half of the remaining 66% of validators will accept one block, the rest will accept the other. This means 66% of the validators (33% attacker + half of the honest remainder) agree on each fork, meaning both forks can finalize. The attacker would have to sacrifice their validators, amounting to 34% of the total stake, to do this.