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Gregory Maxwell 2017-03-15 00:07:25 +00:00
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@ -10,4 +10,7 @@ If this precedent is allowed to hold the network is subject to trivial DOS attac
--Eric Voskuil, 2017-02-07
Clean and straightforward. Nodes should implement this. (Disagree with Voskuil's assessment, as nodes have always been expected to ignore unknown messages.) --Luke Dashjr, 2017-03-14
Clean and straightforward. Nodes should implement this. (Disagree with Voskuil's assessment, as nodes have always been expected to ignore unknown messages.) --Luke Dashjr, 2017-03-14
I also disagree with Voskuil's assessment: nodes have always ignored unknown messages. However, the reject message is of minimal utility and adds many strings to the protocol which are a common source of vulnerabilities and which wastes bandwidth with no clear gain. I recommend implementations do not implement this, or implement it only for transaction messages (which is the only case that I'm aware of anyone actually using it for something plausibly useful). --Greg Maxwell, 2017-03-14