Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability

2012-10-21 Thread Wladimir
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.com wrote: In order to make the Bitcoin network rules more well-defined, I'd like to propose strict rules about what is acceptable, and which do not depend on OpenSSL's implementation. I strongly support this too. It is good to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability

2012-10-21 Thread Gavin Andresen
Any objections from other transaction-validating implementations? I strongly support more precisely defining the transaction validity rules by changing the reference implementation. -- -- Gavin Andresen -- Everyone

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability

2012-10-21 Thread Mike Hearn
No objections. On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com wrote: Any objections from other transaction-validating implementations? I strongly support more precisely defining the transaction validity rules by changing the reference implementation. -- -- Gavin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability

2012-10-21 Thread Stefan Thomas
Any objections from other transaction-validating implementations? Sounds good to me. I think it's important to give people a chance to fix their software, but Pieter's proposal does that. On 10/21/2012 7:05 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: Any objections from other transaction-validating

[Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability

2012-10-20 Thread Pieter Wuille
Hello all, as some may be aware, OpenSSL accepts several encodings for the same public key or the same signature. It even accepts encodings that fail to conform to the SEC and DER specification by which they are defined. As it perfectly capable of parsing every standard-compliant encoding, this