From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:15:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBi8_wQj1ZGWUPQ4rRmuPKt3=OY6HcRZmVLqGMeLNwhpPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDcyEqAm4bwCJsgDQiT14kZiLzmwOgLn-oC_SHZTg7sew@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote:
>> One way to do that is to just - right now - add a patch to 0.10 to
>> make those non-standard. This requires another validation flag, with a
>> bunch of switching logic.
>>
>> The much simpler alternative is just adding this to BIP66's DERSIG
>> right now, which is a one-line change that's obviously softforking. Is
>> anyone opposed to doing so at this stage?
>
> Not opposed, but is kind of late for 0.10, I had hoped to tag rc4 today.
I understand it's late, which is also why I ask for opinions. It's
also not a priority, but if we release 0.10 without, it will first
need a cycle of making this non-standard, and then in a further
release doing a second softfork to enforce it.
It's a 2-line change; see #5743.
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 0:35 Pieter Wuille
2015-01-21 4:45 ` Rusty Russell
2015-01-21 16:49 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-21 19:10 ` Peter Todd
2015-01-21 19:29 ` Douglas Roark
2015-01-21 20:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-21 20:39 ` Douglas Roark
2015-01-21 20:37 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-01-21 20:52 ` Douglas Roark
2015-01-21 21:22 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-21 20:27 ` Andrew Poelstra
2015-01-21 22:57 ` Dave Collins
2015-01-22 0:32 ` Rusty Russell
2015-01-22 3:12 ` David Vorick
2015-01-22 4:18 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-22 4:20 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-25 14:34 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-25 14:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-02-03 0:44 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-02-03 2:21 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-02-03 12:00 ` Wladimir
2015-02-03 14:30 ` Alex Morcos
2015-02-03 18:15 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2015-02-03 18:19 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-02-03 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-02-03 23:38 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-22 22:41 ` Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
2015-01-25 16:57 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-26 5:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-01-26 18:35 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-01-28 6:24 ` Wladimir
2015-02-06 21:38 ` Pieter Wuille
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