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diff --git a/bip-0066.mediawiki b/bip-0066.mediawiki index d2ab189..a47c82d 100644 --- a/bip-0066.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0066.mediawiki @@ -8,12 +8,17 @@ Status: Final Type: Standards Track Created: 2015-01-10 + License: BSD-2-Clause </pre> ==Abstract== This document specifies proposed changes to the Bitcoin transaction validity rules to restrict signatures to strict DER encoding. +==Copyright== + +This BIP is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. + ==Motivation== Bitcoin's reference implementation currently relies on OpenSSL for signature validation, which means it is implicitly defining Bitcoin's block validity rules. Unfortunately, OpenSSL is not designed for consensus-critical behaviour (it does not guarantee bug-for-bug compatibility between versions), and thus changes to it can - and have - affected Bitcoin software. |