Re: [Bitcoin-development] Coinbase script parse failures

2012-07-23 Thread Matt Corallo
I mentioned this on IRC a week or so ago, noticing that though they are not executed and required to be well-formed, we still count any sigops that appear in them (which I guessed may be an interesting attack if you could get a miner to put a byte in there that is the equivalent of OP_CHECKSIG beca

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Coinbase script parse failures

2012-07-23 Thread theymos
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[Bitcoin-development] Coinbase script parse failures

2012-07-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
While writing the script engine for pynode, I ran a test to validate my script tokenizer -- a python script which does nothing more than split up scriptPubKey and scriptSig into component opcodes and data elements. No execution, just tokenization of the script's data stream. Scanning the entire b