Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-11-01 Thread Brooks Boyd
I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on some of these discussions about BIP39, which I think will have great use in the Bitcoin community and outside it as a way to transcribe binary data. The one thought I had as the discussions about similar characters are resulting in culling

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-11-01 Thread Allen Piscitello
The problem with this is that you might have word A which is similar to B, but B is also similar to C. So we scrub B from the list, someone enters B, and we have no way to know if it means A or C. It leads to a much more complicated scheme to ensure that all errors are correctable. Scrubbing A,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-11-01 Thread slush
Hi Brooks, I've been already thinking about eat - cat typing mistake. Actually there may be simplier solution than having wordlist with duplicated words. Because there's already a mapping of similar characters in the source code (currently only in unit test, but it can be moved), when user type a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication

2013-11-01 Thread Luke-Jr
On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingr...@gmx.com wrote: In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In brief, the authentication work as follows: Server provides a token for the