Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WaSgV-0004ID-BA for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:27:39 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.192.47 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.192.47; envelope-from=kevinsisco61784@gmail.com; helo=mail-qg0-f47.google.com; Received: from mail-qg0-f47.google.com ([209.85.192.47]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WaSgU-0002u9-KS for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:27:39 +0000 Received: by mail-qg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id i50so4063109qgf.34 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:27:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.224.163.10 with SMTP id y10mr3805255qax.102.1397665653084; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.115] (ool-43521013.dyn.optonline.net. [67.82.16.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w14sm25331395qaw.11.2014.04.16.09.27.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <534EAF71.4090401@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:27:29 -0400 From: Kevin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wladimir , Pieter Wuille References: <534E9DDC.7000502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080803030704000500010503" X-Spam-Score: 0.7 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [209.85.192.47 listed in list.dnswl.org] -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 (kevinsisco61784[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.2 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in digit (kevinsisco61784[at]gmail.com) 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 1.0 FREEMAIL_REPLY From and body contain different freemails X-Headers-End: 1WaSgU-0002u9-KS Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) 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, 16 Apr 2014 16:27:39 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080803030704000500010503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille > > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin > 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 --------------080803030704000500010503 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote:

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin <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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