I understand that Gavin has spent effort on security efforts against small-scale attackers. It's the fact that he is so dismissive of the threat that large attackers play that is what bothers me. But if I am being divisive I understand.
I posted a clarification of what the reward is for exactly on the forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179612.msg1881800#msg1881800 On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 06:07:23AM +0000, John Dillon wrote: >> Gavin do you actually agree with Mike on this stuff like he implies? >> Because if you do, I think people should know. Myself I wouldn't want >> to be contributing to your salary as a foundation member if you don't >> take Bitcoin security seriously. > > FWIW Gavin has spent quite a bit of time and effort ensuring that > Bitcoin is resistent to DoS attacks, as well as spearheading a move > towards better testing. The latter in particular is helpful against > chain-forking bugs, so better testing is very much a security issue. He > also spearheaded P2SH, and the current efforts to get a payment protocol > implemented. I'm less convinced about his stance against attackers that > pose a threat to the system as a whole, but it's not fair to accuse him > of not taking security seriously. > >> Strict replacement by fee should be written so it can be tested >> properly and people in the Bitcoin ecosystem use proper security >> practices with regard to unconfirmed transactions. I'm willing to >> pledge $500USD to anyone who implements it. That is write the core >> functionality that does replacement by fee, and a simple 'undo' RPC >> command. I would do it myself but my programming is rusty. > > You should clarify if you want this patch to compute fees recursively or > not, IE, should the patch include fees paid by child transactions in how > it computes the total fee the transaction pays. Doing this is > non-trivial, although Luke-Jr has written a patch to do this without > replacement: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1647 > > Also, clarify if you want unit-tests and similar things included in the > implementation. > > -- > 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
