Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQC2-00047K-Pl for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:05:46 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.212.173 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.212.173; envelope-from=gavinandresen@gmail.com; helo=mail-wi0-f173.google.com; Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1UNQC2-0001wH-1d for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:05:46 +0000 Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ez12so3804695wid.0 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.97.132 with SMTP id ea4mr3698419wib.23.1365005139828; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.157.168 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20130401225107.GU65880@giles.gnomon.org.uk> <20130401225417.GV65880@giles.gnomon.org.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:05:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: Gavin Andresen To: Bitcoin Dev Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04426c4e79e91304d977061e X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gavinandresen[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1UNQC2-0001wH-1d Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin pull requests X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:05:47 -0000 --f46d04426c4e79e91304d977061e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I would rather we spend time working to make users' bitcoins safe EVEN IF their bitcoin software is compromised. Eliminate the "if you get a bad bitcoin-qt.exe somehow you're in big trouble" risk entirely, instead of worrying about unlikely scenarios like a timing attack in between ACKs/pulls. Eliminate one piece of software as the possible single point of failure... -- -- Gavin Andresen --f46d04426c4e79e91304d977061e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would rather we spend time working to make users' bitcoins safe EVEN = IF their bitcoin software is compromised.

Eliminate the = "if you get a bad bitcoin-qt.exe somehow you're in big trouble&quo= t; risk entirely, instead of worrying about unlikely scenarios like a timin= g attack in between ACKs/pulls. Eliminate one piece of software as the poss= ible single point of failure...

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