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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:52:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201510210752.17527.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxbBHVdXrdh6fdSyLdkPP_D4MSbofOr01kc9L9QuQTWZ33N1w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:39:45 AM Christian Decker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:19 AM Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
> > This doesn't completely close malleability (which should be documented in
> > the BIP), so I'm not sure it's worth the cost, especially if closing
> > malleability later on would need more. How about specifying flags upfront
> > in the UTXO-creating transaction specifying which parts the signature
> > will cover? This would allow implementation of fully malleability-proof
> > wallets.
> 
> As far as I see it the only remaining venues for malleability are the use
> of sighash flags that are not SIGHASH_ALL, as mentioned in the BIP. Any use
> of non-sighash_all flags is already an explicit permission to modify the
> transactions, by adding and removing inputs and outputs, so I don't see how
> these can be made non-malleable. Am I missing something?

Signer malleability is still a notable concern needing consideration. Ideally, 
wallets should be trying to actively CoinJoin, bump fees on, etc any pending 
transactions in the background. These forms of malleability affect nearly as 
many real use cases as third-party malleability.

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-19 14:01 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs Christian Decker
2015-10-19 15:23 ` Tier Nolan
2015-10-19 19:28   ` Christian Decker
2015-10-19 22:22   ` s7r
2015-10-20 10:30     ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  6:18 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21  7:39   ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  7:52     ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2015-10-21  8:31       ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  8:39         ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21  8:44           ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  8:46             ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-21 18:22               ` Danny Thorpe
2015-10-21 19:27                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-21 23:20                 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-22  8:26                   ` Christian Decker
2015-10-22  8:57                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-22 11:54                       ` Christian Decker
2015-10-22  9:05                     ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-03 20:37                       ` Christian Decker
2015-11-03 20:48                         ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-03 21:44                           ` Christian Decker
2015-11-03 22:01                             ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-05 15:27                               ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-05 19:36                                 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-11-05 20:25                                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-05 22:46                                     ` s7r
2015-11-05 22:29                                   ` Adam Back
2015-11-06 14:52                                 ` Christian Decker
2015-11-04  4:00                             ` Peter Todd
2015-11-05  9:38                               ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  7:48   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-21  8:26     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-21  8:49       ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21  8:50         ` Christian Decker
2015-10-21 10:14         ` Gregory Maxwell

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