On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wui...@gmail.com> wrote: > In order to make the Bitcoin network rules more well-defined, I'd like > to propose strict rules about what is acceptable, and which do not > depend on OpenSSL's implementation.
I strongly support this too. It is good to make the protocol as well-defined as possible in a self-contained way, ie define all the parsing and processing without referring to specific current implementations of other libraries such as OpenSSL. What always bothered me is that OpenSSL can change their API to accept new obscure key encodings at some point, or change their interpretation, and bitcoin will automatically change with it. As bitcoin happily links against any OpenSSL version you provide it, in worst case, this can result in forks and unexpected behavior completely out of our control. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
