Lee: Actually, I don't think there's an explicit intention: > Why are we doing this? A year ago we started to develop a TLS implementation from scratch. Now, we want to boost our confidence in the TLS implementation we've developed and show that robust systems software can be written in a functional language.
Also: Pinyata! Peter: Great point. I hadn't seen it before, but seems it would be great if it became a security trend, like having a warrant canary has. Your improvement makes a ton of sense. -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email [hopefully] five sentences or less? | A: http://five.sentenc.es *NOTE* that my incoming emails are delayed from arriving in my inbox until 9am daily. If you need to reach me sooner, please use other means of getting in touch. #slowwebmovement <http://www.musubimail.com/gmail_timer.html> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Peter Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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