Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.

2013-10-28 Thread John Dillon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: One limitation of the payment protocol as speced is that there is no way for a hidden service site to make use of its full authentication capability because they are

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Making fee estimation better

2013-10-28 Thread John Dillon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com wrote: I feel like there is a lot of in the weeds discussion here about theoretical, what-if-this-and-that-happens-in-the-future scenarios. I would just like to point out

[Bitcoin-development] 0.8.5 setup.exe is corrupt

2013-10-28 Thread Chris Evans
I downloaded 0.8.5 windows setup .exe and it says it is corrupted even after i try re-download it maybe it needs to be rearchived? -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: reject p2p message

2013-10-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
HTTP also defines success codes (2xx). Are we also talking about ACK messages now, rather than just REJECT messages? On 10/28/2013 03:52 AM, kjj wrote: Any reason not to use actual HTTP codes? I'm not aware of any major deficiency in them. Most of them won't apply to us, which is fine, they

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: reject p2p message

2013-10-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de wrote: HTTP also defines success codes (2xx). Are we also talking about ACK messages now, rather than just REJECT messages? I do not believe we should do that: It would be a non-trivial increase the protocol bandwidth

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.

2013-10-28 Thread Adam Back
I think its a mistake relying directly on X509, its subject to corrpution attacks, involves ASN.1 and enough openSSL X.500 encoding abiguity (or other code base) to be a security nightmare. Why not make the payment messages signed by bitcoin keys. If someone wants to associate with X.509 they

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.

2013-10-28 Thread Mike Hearn
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: Maybe I voice this opinion a bit late in the cycle, but A bit late is one way to put it. All these topics and more were discussed to death a year ago when the payment protocol was first being designed. Bluntly, I think

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: reject p2p message

2013-10-28 Thread Gavin Andresen
Thanks for the feedback, everybody, gist updated: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034 Categories are: 0x01-0x0fProtocol syntax errors0x10-0x1fProtocol semantic errors0x40-0x4fServer policy rule https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034#rejection-codes-common-to-all-message-types