Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core trial balloon: splitting blockchain engine and wallet

2014-02-21 Thread Peter Todd
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:11:06PM +0530, Mike Hearn wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: RE doesn't buy you anything Today, when unlocked, plaintext private keys reside in the same address space as the blockchain engine (BCE). Process

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 proposed changes

2014-02-21 Thread Mike Hearn
One more thing. The new bitcoin URI in BIP 72 is extremely long and makes for very dense QR codes. BIP 73 seems OK except that existing wallets that can scan QR codes will choke. One reason the new URIs are long is for backwards compatibility. One thing that makes the URI smaller is not

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Bitcoin Core trial balloon: splitting blockchain engine and wallet

2014-02-21 Thread Dustin D. Trammell
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 07:43 +0100, Wladimir wrote: The most straightforward way would be to run the blockchain daemon as a system service (with its own uid/gid and set of Apparmor/SELinux restrictions) and the wallet daemon as the user. This assumes you as a user have the rights to do so.