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From: Karl Johan Alm <karljohan-alm@garage.co.jp>
To: Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] {sign|verify}message replacement
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 02:04:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALJw2w5o5ykPA-iR==6zavYGH_MLWeqMzB2gH-bEho0+JUQvAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3F3Dv=xk68sx5c=9vKL9ynAVJoEY_hnbuZQ0tSe=7cBdWSVA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:59 AM, Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if I missed the rationale earlier, but why not just do a transaction,
> with a FORKID specifically for this? Then a node can have a mempool
> acceptance test that returns true even if the signature is not valid as per
> Bitcoin consensus, but only due to the FORKID?
>
> This way basically any wallet can support this provided generic FORKID
> support.

You'd basically have to provide an entire transaction rather than just
the signature, so there's some overhead. (Copy-pasting may become
unwieldy quicker.)


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-16  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14  8:09 [bitcoin-dev] {sign|verify}message replacement Karl Johan Alm
2018-03-14  9:46 ` Kalle Rosenbaum
2018-03-14 16:12   ` Anthony Towns
2018-03-15  3:01   ` Karl Johan Alm
2018-03-15  6:43     ` Jim Posen
2018-03-15  7:25       ` Karl Johan Alm
2018-03-15 20:53         ` Jim Posen
2018-03-14 12:36 ` Luke Dashjr
2018-03-15  7:36   ` Karl Johan Alm
2018-03-15 14:14     ` Luke Dashjr
2018-03-16  0:38       ` Karl Johan Alm
2018-03-16  1:59         ` Greg Sanders
2018-03-16  2:04           ` Karl Johan Alm [this message]
2018-03-15 10:15   ` Damian Williamson
2018-03-26  8:53 ` Pieter Wuille
2018-03-27  8:09   ` Karl Johan Alm

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