Gregory Maxwell

No objection to calling it whatever you like, but you should be aware that the considerations extent outside Bitcoin, e.g. OpenSSL certificate blacklisting is vulnerable due to this malleability (I...

Maybe, but OpenSSL issued a CVE and a fix for evasion of hash based blacklisted based on using BER extensions in signatures: CVE-2014-8275. Use of ECDSA malleability appears to be...

Because bans have specific durations I'm not sure if this is a good change. Should a 1 hour ban of foo/16 stop you from adding a 1 year ban of...

I don't really like the banning add removal doing fancy logic. This will make it extremely hard to have external software add bans, even with the newly proposed behaviour. It's...

The most common usage is a relative time, so the times won't be consistent. :)

I think it would with what you're suggesting. You're suggesting that if there is a shorter wider block, and I insert a longer narrower block-- both get added. But if...

bitcoin-core/secp256k1#692 only applies to a weird non-defaultconfiguration that I expect nothing is actually using. The library doesn't otherwise use a large amount of information on the stack

ACK.

> Writing a new BIP for such a change seems overkill and confusing. The new bip could be a copy of the old one with a word changed... in cases...

I think that's somewhat better. In practice I also think it would work like "rejected if the proposer thinks that it should be that and no one complaints, inactive otherwise...