> > Likewise, I could attach a payment request to an email and send it to you, > > and now you can pay me whenever you want forever. > > That certainly sounds like a plausible use case. You do still have > the problem that e-mail is an insecure channel, but it's no worse than > exchanging Bitcoin addreses over e-mail as things stand at the > moment.
On further reflection, I'm not sure I understand this use case of the payment protocol. Since a PaymentRequest currently contains the Outputs that specify the addresses to send to, reusing a PaymentRequest like this without using stealth addresses implies address reuse. (Granted there are alternative solutions to stealth addresses, such as a BIP32-style derivation.) roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
