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From: Johnson Lau <jl2012@xbt.hk>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] New BIP: Low S values signatures
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:46:11 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210216648.90169.1471369571065@privateemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201608161020.28467.luke@dashjr.org>

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> On August 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:10:01 AM Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Specification
> >
> > Every signature passed to OP_CHECKSIG, OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY, OP_CHECKMULTISIG,
> > or OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY, to which ECDSA verification is applied,
>
> Not 20-byte witness v0 programs?

That's an implicit CHECKSIG. Will clarify.

>
> > These operators all perform ECDSA verifications on pubkey/signature pairs,
> > iterating from the top of the stack backwards. For each such verification,
> > if the signature does not pass the IsLowDERSignature check,
>
> "the IsLowDERSignature check" is not well-defined. Probably intend to
> reference the previous paragraph?

IsLowDERSignature is the function in Bitcoin Core. That's a bit complicated as the real checking function is not directly called. I'll clarify.


>
> Luke

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-16 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16 10:10 [bitcoin-dev] New BIP: Low S values signatures Johnson Lau
2016-08-16 10:20 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-08-16 17:46   ` Johnson Lau [this message]
2016-08-17 12:43 ` Johnson Lau
2016-09-02  8:28   ` Johnson Lau

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