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diff --git a/src/script/script.h b/src/script/script.h
index e97967dcea..05f2e7e3a9 100644
--- a/src/script/script.h
+++ b/src/script/script.h
@@ -197,8 +197,23 @@ public:
if (vch.size() > nMaxNumSize) {
throw scriptnum_error("script number overflow");
}
- if (fRequireMinimal && vch.size() > 0 && (vch.back() & 0x7f) == 0 && (vch.size() <= 1 || (vch[vch.size() - 2] & 0x80) == 0)) {
- throw scriptnum_error("non-minimally encoded script number");
+ if (fRequireMinimal && vch.size() > 0) {
+ // Check that the number is encoded with the minimum possible
+ // number of bytes.
+ //
+ // If the most-significant-byte - excluding the sign bit - is zero
+ // then we're not minimal. Note how this test also rejects the
+ // negative-zero encoding, 0x80.
+ if ((vch.back() & 0x7f) == 0) {
+ // One exception: if there's more than one byte and the most
+ // significant bit of the second-most-significant-byte is set
+ // it would conflict with the sign bit. An example of this case
+ // is +-255, which encode to 0xff00 and 0xff80 respectively.
+ // (big-endian).
+ if (vch.size() <= 1 || (vch[vch.size() - 2] & 0x80) == 0) {
+ throw scriptnum_error("non-minimally encoded script number");
+ }
+ }
}
m_value = set_vch(vch);
}