On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:38:52PM -0500, Patrick Connolly wrote: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9027743 > > Would this be an interesting thing to put on a duplicate (...or > production?) system and publicize?
Doesn't look like the site actually proves that the "Piñata" actually has the private key in question; it should be willing to sign a message on demand proving it does. Bitcoin Core has a well-known feature/standard way of signing and validating messages that they could use for this called signmessage. > Might be an interesting practise for creating a form of canary, especially > for projects that perhaps can't afford full and constant audits. Lots of people leave BTC on important servers in unencrypted wallets in well-known formats (e.g. Bitcoin Core's ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat) to detect intrusions. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 0000000000000000027c4628700f9b75f421c74af987df9b389e0d063d8b63df
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