On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Alex Morcos <mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I apologize if this has been discussed many times before.
It has been, but there are probably many people like you who have not bothered researching who may also be curious. > As a long term solution to malleable transactions, wouldn't it be possible > to modify the signatures to be of the entire transaction. Why do you have > to zero out the inputs? I can see that this would be a hard fork, and maybe > it would be somewhat tricky to extract signatures first (since you can sign > everything except the signatures), but it would seem to me that this is an > important enough change to consider making. Because doing so would be both unnecessary and ineffective. Unnecessary because we can very likely eliminate malleability without changing what is signed. It will take time, but we have been incrementally moving towards that, e.g. v0.8 made many kinds of non-canonical encoding non-standard. Ineffective— at least as you describe it— because the signatures _themselves_ are malleable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
