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From: Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@electrum.org>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE and OP_RETURN
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 11:25:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB3F3DtCgdWOPpTdr-cMcnRO1RE2isEAavGZSOTvtSi-0_x64w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3F3DuGi_Uc0cf5eGvE9ej2d1RS8CVkf7xGBjR4uRf8jAmQhA@mail.gmail.com>

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So I think the question to ask would be "why can't we just make sure it's
not 64?"

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:24 AM Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIU the number was picked to protect against CVE-2017-12842 covertly.
> See: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16885
> <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16885/files> which updated the
> text to explicitly mention this fact.
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:20 AM Thomas Voegtlin via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have been trying to CPFP a transaction using OP_RETURN, because the
>> remaining output value would have been lower than the dust threshold.
>>
>> The scriptPubkey of the output was OP_RETURN + OP_0, and there was a
>> single p2wsh input.
>>
>> The result is a 60 bytes transaction (without witness), that gets
>> rejected because it is lower than MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE, which
>> is equal to 82 bytes.
>>
>> Why is that value so high? Would it make sense to lower it to 60?
>>
>>
>> Thomas
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>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-23 14:49 [bitcoin-dev] MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE and OP_RETURN Thomas Voegtlin
2020-05-23 15:24 ` Greg Sanders
2020-05-23 15:25   ` Greg Sanders [this message]
2020-05-24  0:52     ` ZmnSCPxj
2020-05-27 15:15       ` Russell O'Connor

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