On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:11:06PM +0530, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote:
RE doesn't buy you anything Today, when unlocked, plaintext
private keys reside in the same address space as the blockchain engine
(BCE). Process
[Meta: Bitcoin Core is the newfangled branding of bitcoind /
Bitcoin-Qt reference implementation, in case you wondering.]
Several sites, including BitPay, use bitcoind outside the standard
role of wallet software. bitcoind can be used purely for payment
network access and management. I call
Bear in mind a separate process doesn't buy you anything without a sandbox,
and those are expensive (in terms of complexity).
On 21 Feb 2014 11:40, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote:
[Meta: Bitcoin Core is the newfangled branding of bitcoind /
Bitcoin-Qt reference implementation, in case you
RE doesn't buy you anything Today, when unlocked, plaintext
private keys reside in the same address space as the blockchain engine
(BCE). Process separation increases the difficulty of accessing key
data from the BCE, even presuming a normal, no-chroot, same-uid,
parent-child process
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