On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wui...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've sent a pull request to make a small change to BIP 62 (my > anti-malleability proposal) which is still a draft; see: > * https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/90 (the request) > * https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip62up/bip-0062.mediawiki (the result) > > It makes two of the 7 new rules mandatory in new blocks, even for > old-style transactions. Both are already non-standard since 0.8.0, and > have no use cases in my opinion.
Looks good to me. > The reason for this change is dropping the requirement for signature > verification engines to be bug-for-bug compatible with OpenSSL (which > supports many non-standard encodings for signatures). Requiring strict > DER compliance for signatures means any implementation just needs to > support DER. This is certainly a good thing. Not even OpenSSL is guaranteed to be bug-for-bug compatible with its own prior versions forever, so better to strictly define what is allowed. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
