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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Small update to BIP 62
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:46:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBiUXuaSH8AAx2XzsvkDgzbE6Fz89jpx=y35vuRoezOU=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJAd00ba7SzoUYeGvTOoHRiysXtYmx4Cnq8xQLXZx_VwyQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jul 18, 2014 4:56 PM, "Wladimir" <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> > The rationale doesn't seem to apply to rule #4, what's so special about
that
> > one?
>
> > 4. Non-push operations in scriptSig Any non-push operation in a
scriptSig invalidates it.
>
> Having non-push operations in the scriptSig is a source of
> malleability, as there can be multiple sequences of opcodes that
> evaluate to the same result.

Well yes, but that is true for each of the rules and is already covered by
the previous specification in BIP62. Making it mandatory even for old
transaction does not really protect much against malleability as there are
several other sources of malleability that cannot be made mandatory in old
transactions left.

The reason for including #4 is just "allowing this does not benefit anyone".

-- 
Pieter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-19 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-18 15:14 [Bitcoin-development] Small update to BIP 62 Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 15:39 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-18 15:45   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 17:25     ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 18:10       ` Pieter Wuille
2014-07-18 20:56   ` Wladimir
2014-07-18 22:03     ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19  1:28       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-19  4:38         ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19  6:56           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-19  8:34             ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 19:08             ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-19 14:46     ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2014-07-18 20:51 ` Wladimir
2014-09-01 20:48 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-09-03 16:34   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-07 23:31     ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-12 16:35       ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-13 22:45         ` Pieter Wuille

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