I've read this and it looks A-OK to me. Andrew On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:35:49PM -0500, Pieter Wuille wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've been aware of the risk of depending on OpenSSL for consensus > rules for a while, and were trying to get rid of this as part of BIP > 62 (malleability protection), which was however postponed due to > unforeseen complexities. The recent evens (see the thread titled > "OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k incompatible, causes blockchain rejection." > on this mailing list) have made it clear that the problem is very > real, however, and I would prefer to have a fundamental solution for > it sooner rather than later. > > I therefore propose a softfork to make non-DER signatures illegal > (they've been non-standard since v0.8.0). A draft BIP text can be > found on: > > https://gist.github.com/sipa/5d12c343746dad376c80 > > The document includes motivation and specification. In addition, an > implementation (including unit tests derived from the BIP text) can be > found on: > > https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/bipstrictder > > Comments/criticisms are very welcome, but I'd prefer keeping the > discussion here on the mailinglist (which is more accessible than on > the gist). > > -- > Pieter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. > GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. > Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. > Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -- Andrew Poelstra Mathematics Department, University of Texas at Austin Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew "If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school." --Edward Snowden