My stance is that tightening rules to push out edge cases is usually a
good thing.

Liberalising the rules, especially without considerable review is a
dangerous thing.

On 01/23/2015 12:19 AM, Eric Voskuil wrote:
> I don't know yet what is the specific impact to us if the proposal is
> deployed, but...
>
> Obelisk builds against libbitcoin/version1 which has a secp256k1
> dependency *and* an OpenSSL dependency. I believe the OpenSSL
> dependency in libbitcoin/version1 exists only for API compat and
> validation of the secp256k1-based code against the previous
> OpenSSL-based implementation (i.e. in tests), and for OpenSSL's BIGNUM
> support. I don't believe that OpenSSL is used for signing (or any
> crypto) in version1.
>
> libbitcoin/version2 does not use OpenSSL for anything, although there
> is a large regression test suite that is based on generated data from
> our old OpenSSL-based implementation. Libbitcoin-server is based on
> libbitcoin/version2.
>
> In any case, both Obelisk (unless the build is very old) and
> libbitcoin-server should be affected similarly.
>
> genjix did review the proposal and responded to gmaxwell that he saw
> no problems with proposal itself, but presumably we have an impact
> from it.
>
> e
>
> On 01/22/2015 02:39 PM, Noel Maersk wrote:
>> As you know, 0.10 is around the corner, and I was idly wondering
>> about libbitcoin's compatibility with that. Chances are a
>> noticeable portion of the network will be switching to 0.10.
>
>> gmaxwell has also asked on #darkwallet@freenode:
>
>>> < gmaxwell> genjix: Care to review
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06744.html
>>>
>>>
> < gmaxwell> ?
>
>> I didn't review it myself yet, hence asking.
>
>> The proposal is "to make non-DER signatures illegal (they've been
>> non-standard since v0.8.0)".
>
>> We're not using OpenSSL in the new libbitcoin-server. However,
>> what about Obelisk, older libbitcoin versions, and code that relies
>> on that?
>
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