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From: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: lightning-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP sighash_noinput
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:05:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sckjzii.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgS-_D7aBcDf_nAbuREBxv65zYMr60-1YqCnx-esvRVfEg@mail.gmail.com>

Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org> writes:
> I know it seems kind of silly, but I think it's somewhat important
> that the formal name of this flag is something like
> "SIGHASH_REPLAY_VULNERABLE" or likewise or at least
> "SIGHASH_WEAK_REPLAYABLE". This is because noinput is materially
> insecure for traditional applications where a third party might pay to
> an address a second time, and should only be used in special protocols
> which make that kind of mistake unlikely.   Otherwise, I'm worried
> that wallets might start using this sighash because it simplifies
> handling malleability without realizing that when a third party reuses
> a script pubkey, completely outside of control of the wallet that uses
> the flag, funds will be lost as soon as a troublemaker shows up (but
> not, sadly, in testing).  This sort of risk is magnified because the
> third party address reuser has no way to know that this sighash flag
> has (or will) be used with a particular scriptpubkey.

Absolutely agree that we should be signaling the danger of using noinput
as clearly as possible to developers, and I'm more than happy to adopt
the _unsafe suffix suggested by jb55. I think using non-sighash_all
sighashes is always a huge danger, as you have correctly pointed out, so
maybe we should be marking all of them as being unsafe, or make sure to
communicate that danger on a higher level (docs).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-03 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-30 16:29 Christian Decker
2018-04-30 18:25 ` Dario Sneidermanis
2018-05-01 16:58 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-05-01 17:32   ` Christian Decker
2018-05-04  9:15     ` ZmnSCPxj
2018-05-04 11:09       ` Christian Decker
2018-05-04 14:25         ` ZmnSCPxj
2018-09-26  9:36   ` Jonas Nick
2018-09-26 19:45     ` Johnson Lau
2018-09-26 20:40       ` Jonas Nick
2018-05-07 19:40 ` Christian Decker
2018-05-07 20:51   ` Bram Cohen
2018-07-03  6:58     ` [bitcoin-dev] [Lightning-dev] " ZmnSCPxj
2018-07-03 11:54       ` William Casarin
2018-05-08 14:40   ` [bitcoin-dev] " Anthony Towns
2018-05-09 23:01     ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2018-05-09 23:04     ` Rusty Russell
2018-05-14  9:23       ` [bitcoin-dev] [Lightning-dev] " Anthony Towns
2018-05-15 14:28         ` Christian Decker
2018-05-07 23:47 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2018-05-10 14:12   ` Christian Decker
2018-07-02 18:11 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-07-03  4:56   ` Rusty Russell
2018-07-03  5:21     ` Peter Todd
2018-07-03 23:45       ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-07-09  9:41         ` Peter Todd
2018-07-03 12:05   ` Christian Decker [this message]
2018-07-03 12:13   ` [bitcoin-dev] [Lightning-dev] " Luke Dashjr
2018-07-04 18:08     ` fred savage
2018-07-05  8:18       ` vv01f
     [not found]     ` <CAK_c0Xo0G9-YiOGZK_8WsYNkzjQRaH+u7XOUAozKosggXeXTNg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-11  7:43       ` ZmnSCPxj
2018-07-13  0:04       ` Rusty Russell
2018-07-13  9:50         ` fred savage
2018-07-13 11:07           ` Christian Decker

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