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From: Alex Morcos <morcos@gmail.com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] [BIP proposal] Dealing with malleability
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:39:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPWm=eV9YP3wAbCFt1JcSqJ6Jc3kY_546MVk3cHT+X8seC8vRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201402122252.31060.luke@dashjr.org>

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I apologize if this has been discussed many times before.

As a long term solution to malleable transactions, wouldn't it be possible
to modify the signatures to be of the entire transaction.  Why do you have
to zero out the inputs?  I can see that this would be a hard fork, and
maybe it would be somewhat tricky to extract signatures first (since you
can sign everything except the signatures), but it would seem to me that
this is an important enough change to consider making.








On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:27:52 PM Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> > On 02/12/2014 08:44 AM, Alan Reiner wrote:
> > > Changing the protocol to use these static IDs is a pretty fundamental
> > > change that would never happen in Bitcoin.   But they can still be
> > > useful at the application level to mitigate these issues.
> >
> > Not to mention that it would be potentially very insecure to have
> > consensus depend on data (scriptSigs) which are not hashed in the Merkle
> > structure of a block.
> >
> > Not that anyone on this list has suggested such a change, but I've seen
> > it raised multiple times on the forum....
>
> This would be a problem if it was used in the merkle tree, but I'm pretty
> sure
> using it for input selection would be pretty safe. One could even avoid the
> index by simply using the hashScript as the sole input value; then even
> CoinJoins would be safe without breaking chains of transactions (although
> this
> would break address reuse entirely - but I don't see that as a problem in a
> theoretical world). One of those things that an altcoin could improve upon
> Bitcoin with... ;)
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-09 23:33 [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] [BIP proposal] Dealing with malleability Pieter Wuille
2014-02-10  3:00 ` Peter Todd
2014-02-12 15:12   ` Rune Kjær Svendsen
2014-02-12 16:22     ` Alan Reiner
2014-02-12 16:38       ` Allen Piscitello
2014-02-12 16:44         ` Alan Reiner
2014-02-12 20:27           ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-02-12 22:52             ` Luke-Jr
2014-02-13  0:39               ` Alex Morcos [this message]
2014-02-13  0:47                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-19 14:11                   ` Michael Gronager
2014-02-19 14:38                     ` Pieter Wuille
2014-02-19 20:28                       ` Michael Gronager
2014-02-19 20:39                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-19 20:49                         ` Peter Todd
2014-02-19 21:05                           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-19 21:11                         ` Pieter Wuille
2014-02-20  0:22                           ` Natanael
2014-02-20  1:29                             ` Allen Piscitello
2014-02-20  7:50                               ` Natanael
2014-02-20 10:59                           ` Michael Gronager
2014-02-20 14:08                             ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-20 14:15                               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-20 14:29                                 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-02-20 14:36                                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-20 14:58                                     ` Gavin Andresen
2014-02-20 15:11                                       ` Pieter Wuille
2014-02-20 15:24                                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-21  6:07                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-21  6:30                                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-02-19 19:15         ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-02-12 17:13     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-02-12 17:21       ` Pieter Wuille
2014-02-12 18:03     ` Gregory Maxwell
     [not found]       ` <CALf2ePyQeOxL3d+QoaWSYy_cCKaF9qq1StBwXFms9NyedUg3eg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-12 18:21         ` Alan Reiner
2014-02-10  4:39 ` Luke-Jr
2014-02-12 16:56 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-02-12 17:22   ` Pieter Wuille

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