# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-08-22 14:22:50
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.msg1123472#msg1123472

Making transactions with non-DER-encoded (aka BER encoded) signatures non-standard has been on my TODO list for over a year now, but has never been the highest priority.  That's the first step to making non-DER-encoded signatures completely illegal. @p{par}

Note that if there is a core-dumping bug in OpenSSL's decoding code then it needs to get fixed in OpenSSL. Writing a BER decoder just for Bitcoin is a bad idea, it is much more likely our new code would have a crashing bug. @p{brk}