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| author | MeshCollider <dobsonsa68@gmail.com> | 2019-06-22 21:58:52 +1200 |
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| committer | MeshCollider <dobsonsa68@gmail.com> | 2019-06-22 22:00:10 +1200 |
| commit | 2cbcc55ba6aea26d64eae3981b83dac04f70240f (patch) | |
| tree | 0577eb9b116ebffd0f47a87fe3af0e858627a806 /doc/release-notes-13756.md | |
| parent | 32e94538185b61fe64bd16de2459e763ec46b4da (diff) | |
| parent | 71d0344cf25d3aaf60112c5248198c444bc98105 (diff) | |
Merge #16239: wallet/rpc: follow-up clean-up/fixes to avoid_reuse
71d0344cf25d3aaf60112c5248198c444bc98105 docs: release note wording (Karl-Johan Alm)
3d2ff379131a01e4e9f9648b150e806104a23795 wallet/rpc: use static help text (Karl-Johan Alm)
53c3c1ea9e20f881c843a9219e48cec202e962f8 wallet/rpc/getbalances: add entry for 'mine.used' balance in results (Karl-Johan Alm)
Pull request description:
This addresses a few remaining issues pointed out in #13756:
* First commit addresses https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13756#discussion_r284907468
* Second commit addresses https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13756#discussion_r294868973
Ping jnewbery and achow101 as they pointed out these issues.
ACKs for commit 71d034:
jnewbery:
ACK 71d0344cf25d3aaf60112c5248198c444bc98105
meshcollider:
re-utACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16239/commits/71d0344cf25d3aaf60112c5248198c444bc98105
Tree-SHA512: 5e28822af0574ad07dbbed21aa2fe7866bf5770b4c0a1c150ad0da8af3152bcfb7170330a7497fa500326c594740ecf63733cf58325821e2811d7b911d5783a0
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/release-notes-13756.md')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-13756.md b/doc/release-notes-13756.md index 21006f46a0..a500aceb0f 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes-13756.md +++ b/doc/release-notes-13756.md @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ A new wallet flag `avoid_reuse` has been added (default off). When enabled, a wallet will distinguish between used and unused addresses, and default to not use the former in coin selection. -(Note: rescanning the blockchain is required, to correctly mark previously -used destinations.) +Rescanning the blockchain is required, to correctly mark previously +used destinations. Together with "avoid partial spends" (present as of Bitcoin v0.17), this addresses a serious privacy issue where a malicious user can track spends by @@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ These include: - createwallet - getbalance +- getbalances - sendtoaddress -In addition, `sendtoaddress` has been changed to enable `-avoidpartialspends` when -`avoid_reuse` is enabled. +In addition, `sendtoaddress` has been changed to avoid partial spends when `avoid_reuse` +is enabled (if not already enabled via the `-avoidpartialspends` command line flag), +as it would otherwise risk using up the "wrong" UTXO for an address reuse case. The listunspent RPC has also been updated to now include a "reused" bool, for nodes with "avoid_reuse" enabled. |