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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from  Ethereum Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Pages 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Manoj P R Manoj P R
Profile icon Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Smart Contract Development 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Re-entrancy attack

One of the earliest bugs to be discovered in the Ethereum ecosystem is called the re-entrancy bug. This involves functions that can be called repeatedly before the first call to the function is finished. This allows the caller to withdraw all of the contract funds.

In this recipe, you will learn to avoid such issues in your smart contract.

Getting ready

It's expected that you have a basic understanding of the Ethereum blockchain and solidity before stepping through this recipe.

The Remix IDE (https://remix.ethereum.org) can help you quickly test and deploy the contract. Also, you can use any Ethereum client (geth, parity, and so on) and the solc compiler to run this contract.

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