📅 Original date posted:2015-11-22
📝 Original message:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Tadge Dryja wrote:
> I've joked that BIP62 is the "whack-a-mole" BIP in that it addresses many
> vectors for txid malleability, but maybe there are more. And more
> importantly, it addresses 3rd party malleability. It's not helpful in the
> context of lightning channel creation because ECDSA sigs are inherently
> malleable. You can always re-sign the same message with a different
> k-value and get a different signature.
>
> The functionality that's needed is to be able to reliably spend from
> unconfirmed transactions. Segregated witness can accomplish that, but it
> quite a large hard-fork change. sighash_noinput can also accomplish that:
It's definitely not a hard-fork change.
In fact, I'll point out that in general it's actually pretty hard to
come up with features that absolutely must be implemented as hard fork
changes.
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'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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