From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:34:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRX9hxAhbTTXdH3P=G27sCc6D9TMu=3m1euF8P0jMEb7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBgBtYUHtHq1MnKuFJHc=NGZ4t+SxHDs0TLKmzf8bSig=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
> What do you think about these rules? If people want these rules,
> nothing would happen for now - just start try to find software that
> doesn't produce complying data. In a second step, these could be
> enabled as check similar to IsStandard() - making it hard for them to
> get into blocks, but still be accepted when they aren't standard.
> Finally, when no significant amount of non-standard transactions are
> seen anymore, we can write a BIP and start enforcing this as a network
> rule.
I strongly support heading down this path. Malleability has produced a
steady trickle of surprising outcomes. In addition to the problems we
already know about and expect there may be additional security or DOS
problems that arise from allowing these.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-20 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 17:55 Pieter Wuille
2012-10-20 18:34 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2012-10-21 6:47 ` Wladimir
2012-10-21 17:05 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-21 18:47 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-21 18:48 ` Stefan Thomas
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