Auto merge of #1144 - bitcartel:zc.v0.11.2.z7_tx_malleability_gettxid, r=bitcartel
A fix for transaction malleability
This PR fixes transaction malleability by not including the sigscript of transaction inputs and joinsplit sigs when hashing the txid.
This PR supercedes PR #1101 which was a minimal solution based on a new serialization flag.
This PR introduces GetTxid() to distinguish between getting a transaction id and the double sha256 hash.
The key changes are:
- Adding GetTxid() method to CTransaction which makes a copy of the transaction, clearing out the sigscript and joinsplitsig fields, before hashing.
- Verifying that every call to GetHash() actually wants a txid, and replacing with GetTxid().
- Renaming GetHash() to GetSerializeHash()
- Rationale: In future, upstream code we want to merge will use GetHash() but we don't know the intent. We should check to see if the intent is to receive a txid (most likely) in which case we replace with GetTxid(), or if upstream actually wants a double hash of the transaction we can use GetSerializeHash().
- Updated genesis data in chainparams.cpp
Note that coinbase transactions are excluded as they need the sigscript hashed to help avoid duplicate txids per BIP34:
- This modification is related to a question from @ebfull on PR #1101 - "Can we think of a way this change allows us to construct two transactions with the same txid which can simultaneously appear in the blockchain? My guess is it would be possible to construct a coinbase transaction of such a form... this surely breaks invariants."
This PR Passes all tests in test_bitcoin (test data was updated in bloom_tests, miner_tests and script_tests).