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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Duplicate transactions vulnerability
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:23:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202281323.02976.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBhb+gYMwp1OJuCHYt5=BU63=YBWOFaLLthHBkN_U-scaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:48:39 AM Pieter Wuille wrote:
> A simple way to fix this, is adding an extra protocol rule[1]:
> 
>   Do not allow blocks to contain a transaction whose hash is equal to
> that of a former transaction which has not yet been completely spent.
> 
> I've written about it in BIP30[2]. There is a patch for the reference
> client, which has been tested and verified to make the attack
> impossible.

Has it been verified to make even rocconor's complicated transaction-based 
version impossible?

> The purpose of this mail is asking for support for adding this rule to
> the protocol rules. If there is consensus this rule is the solution, I
> hope pools and miners can agree to update their nodes without lengthy
> coinbase-flagging procedure that would only delay a solution. So, who
> is in favor?

Can we do this in two steps? First, prefer blocks which don't break the rule; 
once 55%+ are confirmed to have upgraded, then it is safe to treat it as a 
hard rule.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 16:48 Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 17:12 ` Brautigam Róbert
2012-02-28 17:18   ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 18:10 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-02-28 18:23 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2012-02-28 20:24   ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 20:35   ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29  1:41 ` Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
2012-02-29 16:47   ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-29 17:02     ` Amir Taaki
2012-02-29 21:00 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-02-29 22:05 ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29 22:38   ` Matt Corallo
2012-02-29 22:46   ` Gavin Andresen
2012-02-29 23:00     ` Ben Reeves
     [not found]       ` <20120229232029.GA6073@vps7135.xlshosting.net>
2012-02-29 23:45         ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-01 10:15           ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 13:09             ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:27               ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-03-01 17:20                 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:30               ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-02  1:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-03 16:41 ` Pieter Wuille

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