On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:11:26 PM Mark Friedenbach wrote: > "key id" (thanks sipa). > > I know it's a more technical term, but that is rather the point. It > was a fundamental error to call hashed-pubkeys "addresses" as people > either associate this with "account" or physical addresses, which also > rarely change. > > Security and privacy guarantees of the system are defeated when key > pairs are reused. We should ideally adopt terminology that lead people > to associations of ephemeral, temporary use. "key id" is at least > neutral in this regard. Can anyone think of something better?
Keys are often reused, so not sure that conveys the single-use much better. Reason I suggested invoice id is because nobody wants to pay the same invoice twice. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
