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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:48:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgT4DU1MuOwo0Qr4yMNRamajD=KrOVP93pzApWMpry-Srg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201510210618.56159.luke@dashjr.org>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Monday, October 19, 2015 2:01:04 PM Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> The proposal is implemented (see below), by computing the normalized
>> transaction ID when adding them to the UTXO and storing them along with the
>> coin state. OP_CHECKSIGEX mostly duplicates OP_CHECKSIG and
>> OP_CHECKMULTISIG, but I'm hoping somebody can give me some pointers into
>> how to best refactor the common functionality into reusable blocks. And the
>> annotating incoming transactions with their normalized inputs is a bit
>> cumbersome, maye somebody has some pointers here as well?
>
> 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.
>
> Additionally, you have a flag to control whether the opcode behaves as VERIFY
> or not. Non-VERIFY is not possible as a softfork (without doing a second/new
> P2SH) since it can be negated.

Flagability cannot work recursively which is necessary for any
improvement to be useful for multi-phase protocols. (which, I think,
is the only real application of this class of improvement-- third
party mutation can be prevented by enforced canonical encodings;)

One still wants sighash flags--, but they're going to inherently
result in malleability.

I'm still sad that uniform segregated witeness is so hard to deploy,
adding another id to every utxo set won't be a nice cost. :( But I
have been trying for a long time to come up with anything better and
not being successful.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21  7:48 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
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 [this message]
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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