From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Danny Thorpe <danny.thorpe@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:27:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTjG2yC1Zxqc6bgTk=Z2rAQbW6mnW7pef3jSNKcOZ4fng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJN5wHXSbZPuXN7PQRyOgOMuk2Ogooiww3hW93uNipQJnfkeOg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> outputs) seems like quite a different hazard than a malicious third party
> modifying a transaction in the mempool by twiddling opcodes in the signature
> scripts. The former seems like more a matter of keeping your own house in
Indeed they are different, but canonical encoding enforcement prevents
the third party malleability completely on ordinary transactions.
It is an an _immediate_ solution which is already deployed as a
standardness rule-- once miners update to 0.11.1 or 0.10.3 (or
equivalent) only miners will be able to malleable ordinary payments,
to the best of our current understanding.
[snip]
> proposal. Baby steps. Normalized transaction IDs provide an immediate
> benefit against the hazard of third party manipulation of transactions in
> the mempool, even without canonical ordering.
The thing being discussed here does not provide an immediate benefit
to that particular issue. It addresses multistep contracts and other
cases.
But it does not prevent third party mutation until people change their
public keys to new scheme (which based on p2sh we should expect a well
over a year deployment), which they cannot being doing until a soft
fork is made and settled in the network, for which the code is not yet
written. CLTV suggests that the current timeframe for a soft fork is
around a year and though I'd like to see that improved.
So canonical encoding is both sufficient (to the best of our current
understanding) for preventing third party malleability on ordinary
transactions, and the _only_ option for to have an actually immediate
benefit.
Please don't mix up third party malleability with this work which is
important in its own right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-19 14:01 Christian Decker
2015-10-19 15:23 ` Tier Nolan
2015-10-19 19:28 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-19 22:22 ` s7r
2015-10-20 10:30 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 6:18 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21 7:39 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 7:52 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21 8:31 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 8:39 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21 8:44 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 8:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21 18:22 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-10-21 19:27 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2015-10-21 23:20 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-22 8:26 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-22 8:57 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-22 11:54 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-22 9:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-03 20:37 ` Christian Decker
2015-11-03 20:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-03 21:44 ` Christian Decker
2015-11-03 22:01 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-05 15:27 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-05 19:36 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-05 20:25 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-05 22:46 ` s7r
2015-11-05 22:29 ` Adam Back
2015-11-06 14:52 ` Christian Decker
2015-11-04 4:00 ` Peter Todd
2015-11-05 9:38 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 7:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-21 8:26 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-21 8:49 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 8:50 ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 10:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
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