Re: [bitcoin-dev] Minor DoS vulnerability in BIP144 lack of tx witness data size limit

2022-10-11 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
There are a number of issues with adding arbitrary size restrictions to consensus(I personally think it's additional complexity for negative gain), but most of all this may resolve in burned coins. On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:22 AM Loki Verloren via bitcoin-dev <

[bitcoin-dev] Minor DoS vulnerability in BIP144 lack of tx witness data size limit

2022-10-11 Thread Loki Verloren via bitcoin-dev
The recent 998 of 999 multisig segwit transaction highlights a problem with BIP144. As the solution applied for btcd shows, effectively a single transaction witness can be the same as the maximum block size. 11000 bytes may not be so unreasonable but now there is a special case with a block