Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins

Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:37AM (#13808684)

Fully agreed. There is absolutely no way that is something a programmer ever intended. In fact I think that just

    if (condition);

Should already be enough to trigger the error. (Any 'if' statement without a body).

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by spacemanmatt on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @07:18AM (#13809791)

There could be an important side-effect in condition. Isn't persistent state fun!?

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by shawabawa3 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:07AM (#13810366)

Why have it in an if though?

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by spacemanmatt on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:49AM (#13821454)

I am not condoning it, so much as noting what goes wrong when it's easy ;)

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by hasenj on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:01AM (#13810326)

In that case an empty curly block would make the intention explicit.

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:06AM (#13810362)

That could still be a case of a dropped line in the body.

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