On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wui...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wui...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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 > > I'd like to request a BIP number for this.
Sure. BIP0066. There was also some feedback on Bitcointalk, which I think you've addressed: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932054.0 I also had off-list positive feedback from Amir Taak, so we have positive feedback from several implementers. One of the points that was raised which we'd discussed pre-proposal that was brought up there that I thought I should summarize here was the possibility that someone had previously authored an nlocked spend with an invalidly encoded signature. In those cases the signature can just be mutated to get it mined, and would need to be already to pass IsStandard rules. A case that isn't covered if if they have a chain of transactions after that nlocked transaction, but those cases would already be at extreme risk of malleability (esp since their unchanged form is non-standard), and that coupled with the fact that avoiding this would undermine the intent of the BIP (independence from a specific encoding scheme) seems to have been convincing as much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
