bitshares / bitshares/bitshares-ui

Enable deactivation of unsecure client versions

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Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
575
Avg merge
12h 7m
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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
User do not update client versions regularly. Known security risks can be exploited longer than needed.

**Describe the solution you'd like**
- Client checks if the version is blacklisted
- when blacklisted, client can't be used to perform tasks, which require private key
- user gets an information to update the client version

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
none

**Additional context**
proposal scammer

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Start by locating how this JavaScript client determines its version and how tasks requiring a private key are handled. Define the blacklist source and version policy, then verify that blacklisted clients are blocked from those tasks and show an update message.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
blockchain, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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