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Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in
 Windows XP (or drop support?)
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On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille 
> <pieter.wuille@gmail.com <mailto:pieter.wuille@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin <kevinsisco61784@gmail.com
>     <mailto:kevinsisco61784@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I think we should get to the bottom of this.  Should we assume
>     that xp is
>     > not secure enough?
>
>     Yes.
>
>
> It will quickly grow extremely insecure.
>
> People will be actively analyzing patches to post-XP versions to find 
> security problems that are patched there, to see if they can be 
> exploited on XP.
>
> Wladimir
>
Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, "Such 
and such will not run on windows xp?"


-- 
Kevin


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM,
            Pieter Wuille <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:pieter.wuille@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieter.wuille@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
            wrote:<br>
            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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              <div class="">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin &lt;<a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:kevinsisco61784@gmail.com">kevinsisco61784@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                wrote:<br>
                &gt; I think we should get to the bottom of this.
                 Should we assume that xp is<br>
                &gt; not secure enough?<br>
                <br>
              </div>
              Yes.<br>
            </blockquote>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>It will quickly grow extremely insecure.<br>
              <br>
            </div>
            <div>People will be actively analyzing patches to post-XP
              versions to find security problems that are patched there,
              to see if they can be exploited on XP.<br>
              <br>
            </div>
            <div>Wladimir<br>
              <br>
            </div>
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    </blockquote>
    Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as,
    "Such and such will not run on windows xp?"<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Kevin
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