Add MAX_STANDARD_SCRIPTSIG_SIZE to policy

Bitcoin core has a standardness rule for max satisfaction script sig size.
This PR adds to the policy header file so that it is documented along with
along policy rules. The initial reasoning that 1650 is an implicit
limit(would not reached assuming all other policy rules are being
followed) is outdated.

As we now know, bitcoin transactions can have spend conditions are more than
just signatures and there may exist p2sh transactions involving 100 byte
preimages that maybe non-standard because of this rule. Because this
rule is no longer implicit, we should explicitly document it in policy
header file

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/policy/policy.cpp b/src/policy/policy.cpp
index 91997aa883..4e33fd6cb5 100644
--- a/src/policy/policy.cpp
+++ b/src/policy/policy.cpp
@@ -92,14 +92,15 @@ bool IsStandardTx(const CTransaction& tx, bool permit_bare_multisig, const CFeeR
 
     for (const CTxIn& txin : tx.vin)
     {
-        // Biggest 'standard' txin is a 15-of-15 P2SH multisig with compressed
-        // keys (remember the 520 byte limit on redeemScript size). That works
-        // out to a (15*(33+1))+3=513 byte redeemScript, 513+1+15*(73+1)+3=1627
-        // bytes of scriptSig, which we round off to 1650 bytes for some minor
-        // future-proofing. That's also enough to spend a 20-of-20
-        // CHECKMULTISIG scriptPubKey, though such a scriptPubKey is not
-        // considered standard.
-        if (txin.scriptSig.size() > 1650) {
+        // Biggest 'standard' txin involving only keys is a 15-of-15 P2SH
+        // multisig with compressed keys (remember the 520 byte limit on
+        // redeemScript size). That works out to a (15*(33+1))+3=513 byte
+        // redeemScript, 513+1+15*(73+1)+3=1627 bytes of scriptSig, which
+        // we round off to 1650(MAX_STANDARD_SCRIPTSIG_SIZE) bytes for
+        // some minor future-proofing. That's also enough to spend a
+        // 20-of-20 CHECKMULTISIG scriptPubKey, though such a scriptPubKey
+        // is not considered standard.
+        if (txin.scriptSig.size() > MAX_STANDARD_SCRIPTSIG_SIZE) {
             reason = "scriptsig-size";
             return false;
         }