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From: patrick <patrick@intersango.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Update alert false positives
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:39:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5352ED27.5080403@intersango.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5352EBDF.2090504@olivere.de>

The alert system filters based on the clients version number.

The ubuntu bitcoin ppa is dynamically linked to openssl unlike the 
binaries available from bitcoin.org

There is no way currently to notify users of 0.9.0 w/ static linking 
without also notify 0.9.0 w/ dynamic linking.

On 04/19/2014 04:34 PM, Oliver Egginger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert:
>
> "URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed"
>
> Especially the stable channel is affected:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin
>
> This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be to
> turn off this message (if possible). It produces too many false
> positives and motivates people to maybe harmful workarounds.
>
> - oliver
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-19 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-19 21:34 [Bitcoin-development] Update alert false positives Oliver Egginger
2014-04-19 21:39 ` patrick [this message]
2014-04-19 22:41   ` Jameson Lopp

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