From: Steve Davis <steven.charles.davis@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:26:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6C2972-A320-429A-BD13-623B01F390A3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBhZ1UqOLqz_PVjjrE8Cbte_Y160Gq7P7EWf6cRKjMcDEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pieter,
> On Feb 25, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> Any alternative to move us away from RIPEMD160 would require:
> <snipped>
“Any alternative”? What about reverting to:
[<public_key>, OP_CHECKSIG]
or perhaps later
[<“compressed” public_key>, OP_CHECKSIG]
This appears to get away from the issue without introducing a lot of other concerns?
(IIRC the RIPEMD thing was justified on convenience and compactness).
Could that be the alternative?
/s
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-26 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-02-24 23:49 ` Steve Davis
2017-02-25 1:01 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 12:04 ` Steve Davis
2017-02-25 14:50 ` Leandro Coutinho
2017-02-25 16:10 ` Ethan Heilman
2017-02-25 17:45 ` Shin'ichiro Matsuo
2017-02-27 9:15 ` Henning Kopp
2017-02-25 18:19 ` Alice Wonder
2017-02-25 18:36 ` Ethan Heilman
2017-02-25 19:12 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 20:42 ` Watson Ladd
2017-02-25 20:57 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 20:53 ` Russell O'Connor
2017-02-25 21:04 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 21:21 ` Dave Scotese
2017-02-25 21:34 ` Steve Davis
2017-02-25 21:40 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 21:54 ` Steve Davis
2017-02-25 22:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-02-25 22:34 ` Ethan Heilman
2017-02-26 6:26 ` Steve Davis [this message]
2017-02-26 6:36 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-02-26 7:16 ` Steve Davis
[not found] ` <CAPg+sBirowtHqUT5GUJf9hmDEACKVX19HAon-rrz7GmO8OBsNg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-02-26 16:53 ` Steve Davis
2017-02-25 23:09 ` Leandro Coutinho
2017-02-23 18:14 Peter Todd
2017-02-23 21:28 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 23:57 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-02-24 10:04 ` Tim Ruffing
2017-02-24 15:18 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-02-24 16:30 ` Tim Ruffing
2017-02-24 17:29 ` Aymeric Vitte
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