On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote:
Bringing the thread back on-topic:
Thanks.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
banking with Windows
On 16 April 2014 10:14, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
banking with Windows XP.
If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Melvin Carvalho
melvincarva...@gmail.comwrote:
XP with a trezor would work fine tho?
Probably - but that's a very rare edge case. People that are security
conscious enough to buy a Trezor will not run XP. Also I don't dare to say
that there is not some way to
On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:
Hello,
Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
banking with Windows XP.
If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as
they have
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is
not secure enough?
Yes.
What is this warning?
Windows XP is no longer maintained. Don't use such a system for
protecting your money.
Who is
XP is no longer receiving security patches from Microsoft, and hasn't been
for some time. There are known remote exploits that aren't going to be
fixed, ever.
On Apr 16, 2014 8:15 AM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:
Hello,
Today I noticed that
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is
not secure enough?
Yes.
It will quickly grow extremely insecure.
On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille
pieter.wui...@gmail.com mailto:pieter.wui...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com
mailto:kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we should get to
On 04/16/2014 09:27 AM, Kevin wrote:
Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, Such
and such will not run on windows xp?
It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe to
be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet
It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we say that
we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a platform, and if
an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something to address it. So, it
becomes a test and support issue, not a security issue.
We don't support XP. In fact we don't support *any* distribution, but I
will assume you mean provide a binary which runs on X. Can you find
any reference to Windows XP on the website? I can't.
On 04/16/2014 09:41 AM, Chris Williams wrote:
It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or
You’re right. That’s a huge oversight. I think any software product you’ve
ever considered installing has a section that says
“Hey, we want this much ram on your system, this much disk space, this
processor, etc”.
Otherwise, you’re just setting yourself up for a bad user experience from
Not to get snarky or OS elitist but as I understand it windows security,
even during its support period has been measured in low digit number of days
in the year when is NOT an outstanding known remote root compromise or
combination of remote user compromise + priviledge escalation. Add in
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is
not secure enough?
Yes.
Do we need a similar warning for OS X 10.6? The EOL of
I think a warning like this is inappropriate.
There are many reasons to use an out of date operating system and high level
applications like wallets need not concern themselves with the rest of the
system. Maybe the wallet can scan your browser cache and tell you to stop
visiting somesite.com
On 4/16/2014 5:10 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote:
I think a warning like this is inappropriate.
There are many reasons to use an out of date operating system and high level
applications like wallets need not concern themselves with the rest of the
system. Maybe the wallet can scan your browser
On 04/16/2014 02:29 PM, Kevin wrote:
Okay, so how about an autoupdate function which pulls a work around off
the server? Sooner or later, the vulnerabilities must be faced.
NO. Bitcoin Core will never have an auto-update functionality. That
would be a single point of failure whose compromise
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote:
On 04/16/2014 02:29 PM, Kevin wrote:
Okay, so how about an autoupdate function which pulls a work around off
the server? Sooner or later, the vulnerabilities must be faced.
NO. Bitcoin Core will never have an
Bringing the thread back on-topic:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
banking with Windows XP.
If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
secure enough to
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