Withdrawing BIP120/121 due to security issues during soft-forks #645

pull kallerosenbaum wants to merge 2 commits into bitcoin:master from kallerosenbaum:master changing 3 files +6 −6
  1. kallerosenbaum commented at 9:31 PM on February 8, 2018: contributor

    There is an inherent problem with BIP120, Proof of Payment: If there is a soft fork, a server that verifies PoPs will accept a PoP as valid without checking any of the new Bitcoin rules.

    For example, a server will be fooled by a segwit transaction, because the server doesn't have a witness to verify and consequently will accept any PoP with an empty scriptSig.

    Since BIP121 depends on BIP120, that has to go too.

  2. Withdrawing BIP120/121 due to security issues during soft-forks 85a99fb14b
  3. Fixing README table background style for BIP120 and 121 a7819e43c6
  4. luke-jr merged this on Feb 10, 2018
  5. luke-jr closed this on Feb 10, 2018

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