On Saturday, October 26, 2013 3:31:05 AM Gregory Maxwell 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 unable to get SSL certificates issued to > them. > > A tor hidden service (onion site) is controlled by an RSA key. > > It would be trivial to pack a tor HS pubkey into a self-signed x509 > certificate with the cn set to foooo.onion. > ... > Thoughts?
Is there any point to additional encryption over tor (which afaik is already encrypted end-to-end)? Is there a safe way to make this work through tor entry nodes/gateways? It'd be nice to have a way to support namecoin-provided keys too... Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development