From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Small update to BIP 62
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:51:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJCDv+JWXOoiU7BvudyCza=9mtRspWwST3SyaDovvj6Osw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBiTURdRAZbyk3guF5YzAAQebo8yY_TuXHUKYDEdLjDUdQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've sent a pull request to make a small change to BIP 62 (my
> anti-malleability proposal) which is still a draft; see:
> * https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/90 (the request)
> * https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip62up/bip-0062.mediawiki (the result)
>
> It makes two of the 7 new rules mandatory in new blocks, even for
> old-style transactions. Both are already non-standard since 0.8.0, and
> have no use cases in my opinion.
Looks good to me.
> The reason for this change is dropping the requirement for signature
> verification engines to be bug-for-bug compatible with OpenSSL (which
> supports many non-standard encodings for signatures). Requiring strict
> DER compliance for signatures means any implementation just needs to
> support DER.
This is certainly a good thing. Not even OpenSSL is guaranteed to be
bug-for-bug compatible with its own prior versions forever, so better
to strictly define what is allowed.
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-18 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-18 15:14 Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 15:39 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-18 15:45 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 17:25 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 18:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 20:56 ` Wladimir
2014-07-18 22:03 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 1:28 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-19 4:38 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 6:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-19 8:34 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 19:08 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 14:46 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 20:51 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-09-01 20:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-09-03 16:34 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-07 23:31 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-12 16:35 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-13 22:45 ` Pieter Wuille
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