Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-01-22 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
.Hi there. Thank you for your work on this. I've looked over https://gist.github.com/sipa/5d12c343746dad376c80 and https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/bipstrictder . I didn't actually audit the included reference implementation of IsValidSignatureEncoding(), and I didn't check whether the test

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Relative CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (was CLTV proposal)

2015-03-19 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
I'm in favor of relative CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, but I don't have a very specific reason. I just have a vague worry that there can be "race conditions" in which a txn with an absolute CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY goes into the blockchain later than one of its signers expected that it would, and therefore there

[Bitcoin-development] (no subject)

2013-05-24 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
jgarzik wrote: > 1) Rule changes. We don't want these. In general? What constitutes a rule change? For example, if I understand correctly (from what Gavin said at Bitcoin 2013), there is a move afoot to lift the block size limit. Although, when I went to confirm my understanding by reading the