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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Ben Reeves <support@pi•uk.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Duplicate transactions vulnerability
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:45:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229234558.GA6573@vps7135.xlshosting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229232029.GA6073@vps7135.xlshosting.net>

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:00:42PM +0000, Ben Reeves wrote:
> I'm not sure. What if they use a coinbase of a block that has already matured?

Indeed; duplicate an old coinbase, fork chain without dupe, and spend the old coinbase.
The 100-blocks maturity will not help against is.

I'm not sure how you intend to fix DisconnectBlock() to prevent this in a backward-
compatible way, though.

-- 
Pieter



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 23:46 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
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 [this message]
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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