From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Opcode whitelist for P2SH?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 02:00:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0Oe4YT+DnEiVxN_tykMQ8YPtyKTf3K7kb0B-9CHoHSy7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307290517.54624.luke@dashjr.org>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 7:39:08 PM John Dillon wrote:
>> What are your thoughts on creating a whitelist for specific opcodes that
>> would apply to scripts serialized using P2SH, retaining the existing
>> standard whitelist for scriptPubKeys? (I would still recommend dropping
>> pay-to-pubkey and pay-to-multisig due to their potential for dumping data
>> in the UTXO set)
>
> This would be reasonable for miners, but for interoperability between wallets,
> some specific standard forms would still be necessary without a much smarter
> solver (which would then expand the code required to implement a wallet, which
> is unfortunate if not entirely necessary).
Indeed. Current designs are all based around pattern matching a
script template. Satoshi even described lightweight clients as
needing no script engine at all, only the ability to match patterns.
--
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-28 19:39 [Bitcoin-development] Opcode whitelist for P2SH? John Dillon
2013-07-29 5:17 ` Luke-Jr
2013-07-29 6:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-07-29 7:41 ` Peter Todd
2013-07-29 8:13 ` Peter Todd
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