[Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
To those of you in the know about modern browser tech: Does it seem at all conceivable that an SPV wallet could be built entirely in JavaScript? And if indeed it is within the realm of the possible, how would such a thing be safely distributed for use? Would a signed Chrome Plugin be an ideal

[Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
This is just me making notes for myself, I'm not seriously suggesting this be implemented any time soon. Mozilla Persona is an infrastructure for web based single sign on. It works by having email providers sign temporary certificates for their users, whose browsers then sign server-provided

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based SSO implementations as discussed by John Light and others. One of our long-term ambitions with Hive is to provide a (mostly) user-transparent, decentralized authentication

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
Oh, I forgot to make it clear - Chrome apps/extensions can make raw TCP socket connections: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/11/introducing-tcp-listen-new-api-for.html You would do it as a packaged app: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html because then they're a lot more similar to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 14:08, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Bitcoin sought to reduce dependence on trusted third parties, where as, persona is increasing the reach of trusted third parties. The keys and passwords are stored on mozilla's servers, sometimes on your email providers. Persona, is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 13:59, Wendell w...@grabhive.com wrote: We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based SSO implementations as discussed by John Light and others. I've been using SSO for years using an X.509 private

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
Packaged app pages always load locally. This allows apps to be less dependent on the network. Once a user installs an app, they have full control over the app's lifecycle. Apps open and close quickly, and the system can shut apps down at any time to improve performance. Users can fully

[Bitcoin-development] Optional wallet-linkable address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Alan Reiner
Guys, I'd like to reiterate my previous request to support this alternate address serialization in the payment protocol. We got caught up in the specifics of one use case, but didn't acknowledge that it's still a valid address representation that will provide value to those who wish to use it

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
No, it's not -- but that's certainly very cool to see Jeff. How is BitPay going to put this to use? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: Certainly. BitPay is working on such a wallet: https://github.com/jgarzik/wally

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Wendell w...@grabhive.com wrote: No, it's not -- but that's certainly very cool to see Jeff. How is BitPay going to put this to use? Well, wally is just a demo application, a command line client to prove a technology. The main development is in places like

[Bitcoin-development] BitMail.sf.net - encrypted p2p email

2013-08-09 Thread Randolph D.
anyone tested the secure encrypted p2p email: http://bitmail.sf.net SVN here: svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/spot-on/code/ spot-on-code http://sourceforge.net/p/spot-on/code/commit_browser -- Get 100% visibility

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional wallet-linkable address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
Payment protocol is locked down for v1 already. But did you read it? It doesn't use addresses anywhere. Payments are specified in terms of a list of outputs which can contain any script. Of course it could be a pay-to-address script, but pay-to-address uses more bytes in the chain and there isn't

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional wallet-linkable address format (Re-request)

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
It's BIP specified and implemented in Bitcoin-Qt so now is the time to start :) I'm hoping that most wallets can announce support near simultaneously On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Alan Reiner etothe...@gmail.com wrote: That's fine. I just want to make sure it's considered for

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail.sf.net - encrypted p2p email

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
Jesus, please stop this. :( -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Randolph D. wrote: anyone tested the secure encrypted p2p email: http://bitmail.sf.net SVN here: svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/spot-on/code/ spot-on-code