Tests if addresses are online or offline by briefly connecting to them. These short lived connections are referred to as feeler connections. Feeler connections are designed to increase the number of fresh online addresses in tried by selecting and connecting to addresses in new. One feeler connection is attempted on average once every two minutes.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 4 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
Remove the unused variable "blockTmp" in CMerkleTx::SetMerkleBranch. It
was previously used to read the block from disk if not provided as
argument, but is no longer needed.
The `pickDataDirectory()` function was calling `exit(0)` to quit
the application when the user closes the dialog without choosing
a data directory.
This is a bad idea because a background thread is created (to
check free space on the drive of the currently selected datadir).
The thread is not stopped and unwound properly, resulting in a potential
race condition somewhere deep in Qt.
So replace the `exit()` by a boolean return value, and let the
stack unwind normally.
fad8cf6 [qa] Use single cache dir for chains (MarcoFalke)
fa2d68f [qa] Adjust timeouts for micro-optimization of run time (MarcoFalke)
fae596f [qa] Sort scripts by time for pull_tester and don't overwrite setup_chain (MarcoFalke)
7a49cac Merge #410: Add string.h include to ecmult_impl
0bbd5d4 Add string.h include to ecmult_impl
c5b32e1 Merge #405: Make secp256k1_fe_sqrt constant time
926836a Make secp256k1_fe_sqrt constant time
e2a8e92 Merge #404: Replace 3M + 4S doubling formula with 2M + 5S one
8ec49d8 Add note about 2M + 5S doubling formula
5a91bd7 Merge #400: A couple minor cleanups
ac01378 build: add -DSECP256K1_BUILD to benchmark_internal build flags
a6c6f99 Remove a bunch of unused stdlib #includes
65285a6 Merge #403: configure: add flag to disable OpenSSL tests
a9b2a5d configure: add flag to disable OpenSSL tests
b340123 Merge #402: Add support for testing quadratic residues
e6e9805 Add function for testing quadratic residue field/group elements.
efd953a Add Jacobi symbol test via GMP
fa36a0d Merge #401: ecmult_const: unify endomorphism and non-endomorphism skew cases
c6191fd ecmult_const: unify endomorphism and non-endomorphism skew cases
0b3e618 Merge #378: .gitignore build-aux cleanup
6042217 Merge #384: JNI: align shared files copyright/comments to bitcoinj's
24ad20f Merge #399: build: verify that the native compiler works for static precomp
b3be852 Merge #398: Test whether ECDH and Schnorr are enabled for JNI
aa0b1fd build: verify that the native compiler works for static precomp
eee808d Test whether ECDH and Schnorr are enabled for JNI
7b0fb18 Merge #366: ARM assembly implementation of field_10x26 inner (rebase of #173)
001f176 ARM assembly implementation of field_10x26 inner
0172be9 Merge #397: Small fixes for sha256
3f8b78e Fix undefs in hash_impl.h
2ab4695 Fix state size in sha256 struct
6875b01 Merge #386: Add some missing `VERIFY_CHECK(ctx != NULL)`
2c52b5d Merge #389: Cast pointers through uintptr_t under JNI
43097a4 Merge #390: Update bitcoin-core GitHub links
31c9c12 Merge #391: JNI: Only call ecdsa_verify if its inputs parsed correctly
1cb2302 Merge #392: Add testcase which hits additional branch in secp256k1_scalar_sqr
d2ee340 Merge #388: bench_ecdh: fix call to secp256k1_context_create
093a497 Add testcase which hits additional branch in secp256k1_scalar_sqr
a40c701 JNI: Only call ecdsa_verify if its inputs parsed correctly
faa2a11 Update bitcoin-core GitHub links
47b9e78 Cast pointers through uintptr_t under JNI
f36f9c6 bench_ecdh: fix call to secp256k1_context_create
bcc4881 Add some missing `VERIFY_CHECK(ctx != NULL)` for functions that use `ARG_CHECK`
6ceea2c align shared files copyright/comments to bitcoinj's
70141a8 Update .gitignore
7b549b1 Merge #373: build: fix x86_64 asm detection for some compilers
bc7c93c Merge #374: Add note about y=0 being possible on one of the sextic twists
e457018 Merge #364: JNI rebased
86e2d07 JNI library: cleanup, removed unimplemented code
3093576a JNI library
bd2895f Merge pull request #371
e72e93a Add note about y=0 being possible on one of the sextic twists
3f8fdfb build: fix x86_64 asm detection for some compilers
e5a9047 [Trivial] Remove double semicolons
c18b869 Merge pull request #360
3026daa Merge pull request #302
03d4611 Add sage verification script for the group laws
a965937 Merge pull request #361
83221ec Add experimental features to configure
5d4c5a3 Prevent damage_array in the signature test from going out of bounds.
419bf7f Merge pull request #356
03d84a4 Benchmark against OpenSSL verification
git-subtree-dir: src/secp256k1
git-subtree-split: 7a49cacd3937311fcb1cb36b6ba3336fca811991
We don't use any elliptic curves from OpenSSL anymore, nor include this
header anywhere but optionally in the tests of secp256k1 (which has
its own autoconf setup).
Reported by sinetek on IRC.
Wladimir J. van der Laan