Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

2013-02-08 Thread Pieter Wuille
On 9 Feb 2013 00:50, "Gavin Andresen" wrote: > Then before final release (or rc2, if that is needed) pull #2286 and > create and pull a patch to fix the windows non-determinism problem. #2243 should fix that, I think. -- Pieter ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

2013-02-08 Thread grarpamp
> Linux builds of 0.8.0rc1 are in good shape; easily gitian-reproduceable. > Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally > The OSX build is in pretty good shape, but needs > So: I think the path forward is to announce 0.8.0rc1 with the binaries > we've got, to get more test

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

2013-02-08 Thread Luke-Jr
On Friday, February 08, 2013 11:49:09 PM Gavin Andresen wrote: > Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally > figured out why: we are not passing the -frandom-seed flag down into > the leveldb build (I used objdump to dump two different binaries, and > they differed only i

[Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

2013-02-08 Thread Gavin Andresen
Linux builds of 0.8.0rc1 are in good shape; easily gitian-reproduceable. Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally figured out why: we are not passing the -frandom-seed flag down into the leveldb build (I used objdump to dump two different binaries, and they differed onl

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blockchain as root CA for payment protocol

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Todd
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:03:54AM +0100, Timo Hanke wrote: > First, we have drafted a quite general specification for bitcoin certificates > (protobuf messages) that allow for a variety of payment protocols (e.g. > static as well as customer-side-generated payment addresses). > This part has sur

[Bitcoin-development] Blockchain as root CA for payment protocol

2013-02-08 Thread Timo Hanke
There have been proposals to use the blockchain to establish "identities". firstbits is a simple example. I would like to announce a project that extends this idea to turn the blockchain into a "root CA" that can sign arbitrary certificates. The purpose is to use these certificates in the payment p