On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:27:52 PM Mark Friedenbach wrote: > On 02/12/2014 08:44 AM, Alan Reiner wrote: > > Changing the protocol to use these static IDs is a pretty fundamental > > change that would never happen in Bitcoin. But they can still be > > useful at the application level to mitigate these issues. > > Not to mention that it would be potentially very insecure to have > consensus depend on data (scriptSigs) which are not hashed in the Merkle > structure of a block. > > Not that anyone on this list has suggested such a change, but I've seen > it raised multiple times on the forum....
This would be a problem if it was used in the merkle tree, but I'm pretty sure using it for input selection would be pretty safe. One could even avoid the index by simply using the hashScript as the sole input value; then even CoinJoins would be safe without breaking chains of transactions (although this would break address reuse entirely - but I don't see that as a problem in a theoretical world). One of those things that an altcoin could improve upon Bitcoin with... ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
