Update alert false positives
3 messages, 19 Apr 2014. Started by Oliver Egginger.
Oliver Egginger, Patrick Strateman, Jameson Lopp
Hello,
bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert:
"URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed"
Especially the stable channel is affected:
https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin
This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be to turn off this message (if possible). It produces too many false positives and motivates people to maybe harmful workarounds.
- oliver
The alert system filters based on the clients version number.
The ubuntu bitcoin ppa is dynamically linked to openssl unlike the binaries available from bitcoin.org
There is no way currently to notify users of 0.9.0 w/ static linking without also notify 0.9.0 w/ dynamic linking.
On 04/19/2014 04:34 PM, Oliver Egginger wrote:
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> Hello, > > bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert: > > "URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed" > > Especially the stable channel is affected: > > https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin > > This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be to > turn off this message (if possible). It produces too many false > positives and motivates people to maybe harmful workarounds. > > - oliver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Looks like Matt just pushed out new builds to the Ubuntu PPA, so this issue should resolve itself shortly.
- Jameson
On 04/19/2014 05:39 PM, patrick wrote:
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> The alert system filters based on the clients version number. > > The ubuntu bitcoin ppa is dynamically linked to openssl unlike the > binaries available from bitcoin.org > > There is no way currently to notify users of 0.9.0 w/ static linking > without also notify 0.9.0 w/ dynamic linking. > > On 04/19/2014 04:34 PM, Oliver Egginger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert: >> >> "URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed" >> >> Especially the stable channel is affected: >> >> https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin >> >> This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be to >> turn off this message (if possible). It produces too many false >> positives and motivates people to maybe harmful workarounds. >> >> - oliver >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their >> applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, >> this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >