From: Arto Bendiken <arto@bendiken.net>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Code review
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:58:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE7aNuS00t97g8K-sPJv4Xt+zWbWbDEjfkza8oBq4c5RjfRP1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131004113517.GA8373@savin>
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> The second caveat is more specific to Bitcoin: people tend to rebase
> their pull-requests over and over again until they are accepted, but
> that also means that code review done earlier doesn't apply to the later
> code pushed. Bitcoin is a particularly high profile, and high profit,
> target for people trying to get malicious code into the codebase.
On that note, this 2003 example of an attempt to backdoor the Linux
kernel is pertinent:
http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
The backdoor in question came down to a single missing character,
easily overlooked by a reviewer if a spotlight hadn't been thrown on
it for other reasons. Compromising a Bitcoin implementation isn't
going to be as easy as that, one would hope, but certainly it seems
only a matter of time until there's an attempt at it.
Following these code review discussions with much interest.
--
Arto Bendiken | @bendiken | http://ar.to/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-04 10:30 [Bitcoin-development] Code review Mike Hearn
2013-10-04 10:42 ` Andy Parkins
2013-10-04 11:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-04 12:34 ` Andy Parkins
2013-10-04 11:35 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-04 11:58 ` Arto Bendiken [this message]
2013-10-04 12:14 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-04 12:34 ` Andy Parkins
2013-10-04 11:53 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-04 12:14 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-04 12:22 ` Eugen Leitl
2013-10-05 2:31 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-05 4:02 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-10-05 11:36 ` Mike Hearn
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