See also https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1498
The benefit is a simpler implementation:
- The protocol state machine does not need separate states for garbage
authentication and version phases.
- The special case of "ignoring the ignore bit" is removed.
- The freedom to choose the contents of the garbage authentication
packet is removed. This simplifies testing.
So far, the documentation of memory_cleanse() is a verbatim copy of
the commit message in BoringSSL, where this code was originally
written. However, our code evolved since then, and the commit message
is not particularly helpful in the code but is rather of historical
interested in BoringSSL only.
This commit improves improves the comments around memory_cleanse()
and gives a better rationale for the method that we use. This commit
touches only comments.
Commit fbf327b138 ("Minimal code
changes to allow msvc compilation.") was indeed minimal in terms
of lines touched. But as a result of that minimalism it changed the
logic in memory_cleanse() to first call std::memset() and then
additionally the MSVC-specific SecureZeroMemory() function, and it
also moved a comment to the wrong location.
This commit removes the superfluous call to std::memset() on MSVC
and ensures that the comment is in the right position again.
This reverts commit 15e26a6a9a, whose
purpose was to tweak the Qt configuration to force TLS, i.e., to
disable SSLv3, in Qt versions >= 5.5. However, the default behavior
of Qt >= 5.4 is to disable SSLv3 anyway [1], so the configuration
tweak is redundant.
With Qt 5.11.2, the configuration tweak is not only redundant but in
fact provokes a deadlock (#14359) due to Qt 5.11.2 being incompatible
with OpenSSL 1.1.1 [2]. Since the deadlock occurs at the early startup
stage of bitcoin-qt, it renders bitcoin-qt entirely non-functional
when compiled against OpenSSL 1.1.1 and Qt 5.11.2 (and possible future
combinations of OpenSSL and Qt versions).
This commit fixes#14359 by removing the redundant code.
[1] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=3fd2d9eff8c1f948306ee5fbfe364ccded1c4b84
[2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70956
This commit slightly changes the format of the "Usage" strings in CLI
`-help` messages to meet the expection of the help2man tool, which we
use to generate man pages. On the way, we remove a few calls to
`strprintf()`, which became superficial after commit 32fbfda.
According to the BerkeleyDB docs, the DbEnv handle may not be accessed
after close() has been called. This change ensures that we create a new
handle after close() is called. This avoids a segfault when the first
connection attempt fails and then a second connection attempt tries to
call open() on the already closed DbEnv handle.
Tim Ruffing