On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:35:49PM -0500, Pieter Wuille wrote: I read this and it's boring, now that all my objections have been met. :)
I'll try get a chance to actually test/review this in detail; in SF for the next three weeks with some ugly deadlines and a slow laptop. :( > Hello everyone, > > We've been aware of the risk of depending on OpenSSL for consensus > rules for a while, and were trying to get rid of this as part of BIP > 62 (malleability protection), which was however postponed due to > unforeseen complexities. The recent evens (see the thread titled > "OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k incompatible, causes blockchain rejection." > on this mailing list) have made it clear that the problem is very > real, however, and I would prefer to have a fundamental solution for > it sooner rather than later. > > I therefore propose a softfork to make non-DER signatures illegal > (they've been non-standard since v0.8.0). A draft BIP text can be > found on: > > https://gist.github.com/sipa/5d12c343746dad376c80 > > The document includes motivation and specification. In addition, an > implementation (including unit tests derived from the BIP text) can be > found on: > > https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/bipstrictder > > Comments/criticisms are very welcome, but I'd prefer keeping the > discussion here on the mailinglist (which is more accessible than on > the gist). -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 00000000000000001a5e1dc75b28e8445c6e8a5c35c76637e33a3e96d487b74c
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