Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Roy Badami
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 01:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > namecoin + SIN[1] or namecoin + PGP identity. Is namecoin actively maintained these days? roy -- ___ Bitcoin-de

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
namecoin + SIN[1] or namecoin + PGP identity. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Identity_protocol_v1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:21 AM, vv01f wrote: > Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses > available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind > of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Chris D'Costa
The idea was not to register profiles or any human identity, or associate it with any other identity directly. Neither was it to have a massive BlockChain, or use proof of work. In this case proof of work is detrimental to security - you want as many people to know about your keys as quickly as

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Natanael
This sounds like Namecoin. You can already register profiles with it, including keypairs. onename.io is a web-based client you can use to register on the Namecoin blockchain. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Chris D'Costa wrote: > Security of transmission of person-to-person pay-to addresses is o

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Chris D'Costa
Security of transmission of person-to-person pay-to addresses is one of the use cases that we are addressing on our hardware wallet. I have yet to finish the paper but in a nutshell it uses a decentralised ledger of, what we refer to as, "device keys". These keys are not related in any way to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Peter Todd
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:21:03PM +0200, vv01f wrote: > Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses > available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind > of WoT. Right now they sign their own addresses and quote them in the > forums. > As I pointed

Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread Natanael
Does't BIP70 cover this already via Certificate Authorities? On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:21 PM, vv01f wrote: > Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses > available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind > of WoT. Right now they sign their own a

[Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory

2014-03-31 Thread vv01f
Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind of WoT. Right now they sign their own addresses and quote them in the forums. As I pointed out there already the centralized storage in the forums is not s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 70 refund field

2014-03-31 Thread Peter Todd
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:07:04PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > Though I am loathe to go back and redesign this part of BIP 70 so soon > after we shipped v1, it seems to me like the refund feature may be hard to > implement on phones if there's no time limit for when you can receive a > refund. Other

[Bitcoin-development] Anyone using bitcoind that needs RPC bound to interface? [testing needed]

2014-03-31 Thread Wladimir
A while ago I created a patch to make it possible to bind the RPC port to a specific address or even multiple address/port pairs. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3695 I'm fairly confident that it works, but it cannot hurt if some people that need this functionality tested it before merge.