On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:02:36PM -0400, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I believe there continues to be concern over a number of altcoins which
> are running old, unpatched forks of Bitcoin Core, making it rather
> difficult to disclose issues without putting people at risk (see, eg,
>
I don't think we should put any Bitcoin users at additional risk to help
altcoins. If they fork the code they are making maintenance their own
responsibly.
It's hard to disclose a bitcoin vulnerability considering the network is
decentralised and core can't force everyone to update. Maybe a
I believe there continues to be concern over a number of altcoins which
are running old, unpatched forks of Bitcoin Core, making it rather
difficult to disclose issues without putting people at risk (see, eg,
some of the dos issues which are preventing release of the alert key).
I'd encourage the
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Hi,
Given today's presentation by Chris Jeffrey at the Breaking Bitcoin
conference, and the subsequent discussion around responsible disclosure
and industry practice, perhaps now would be a good time to discuss
"Bitcoin and CVEs" which has gone unanswered for 6 months.
