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authorGregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>2012-10-20 14:34:11 -0400
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Public key and signature malleability
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+On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
+> What do you think about these rules? If people want these rules,
+> nothing would happen for now - just start try to find software that
+> doesn't produce complying data. In a second step, these could be
+> enabled as check similar to IsStandard() - making it hard for them to
+> get into blocks, but still be accepted when they aren't standard.
+> Finally, when no significant amount of non-standard transactions are
+> seen anymore, we can write a BIP and start enforcing this as a network
+> rule.
+
+I strongly support heading down this path. Malleability has produced a
+steady trickle of surprising outcomes. In addition to the problems we
+already know about and expect there may be additional security or DOS
+problems that arise from allowing these.
+
+