Pieter Wuille <pieter.wui...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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
Cut and paste bug in the last check:
// Null bytes at the start of R are not allowed, unless it would otherwise be
// interpreted as a negative number.
if (lenS > 1 && (sig[lenR + 6] == 0x00) && !(sig[lenR + 7] & 0x80))
return false;
You mean "null bytes at the start of S".
Cheers,
Rusty.
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