[Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2014-10-17 Thread Andy Schroder
ta of a repeated field as input, clients that expect this field to be |optional| will take the last input value if it's a primitive type field or merge all input elements if it's a message type field." Your comments and suggestions would b

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Schroder
Hello Mike, Thanks for the feedback. I have indicated some replies below... Andy Schroder On 10/20/2014 08:50 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: Hey Andy, Thanks for starting this discussion! One thing this brings up is the never-resolved issue of whether BIPs should document how we'd /like/ thin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-05 Thread Andy Schroder
oticed that micropayment channels have little formality to being established practically and it would be awesome if they could be managed over bluetooth as well. Maybe more improvements to the payment protocol can simultaneously result (and also extended to bluetooth) that embrace the establishment of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-05 Thread Andy Schroder
ng the payment request data. How much power is going to be used for just a few second payment? It's not like the bluetooth connection is maintained for a long time like it may be in other non bitcoin use cases. Where is a more appropriate place to discuss the other issues you have at l

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-22 Thread Andy Schroder
ttps over a bluetooth socket. There was some criticism of this, but I don't think it has been tested to know if it is really a problem or not. If we just run https over bluetooth, then a lot of my concerns about the message header inconsistencies will go away and the connection will al

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-22 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 02/22/2015 06:06 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: On 02/22/2015 02:37 PM, Andy Schroder wrote: I'd like to see some discussion too about securing the bluetooth connection. Right now it is possible for an eavesdropper to monitor the data transferred. Yes, this should be a prerequ

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-22 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 02/22/2015 05:48 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: One correction inline below. e On 02/22/2015 02:39 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: Hi Jan, This is really nice work. WRT the Schroder and Schildbach proposal, the generalization of the "r" and "payment_url" paramete

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-22 Thread Andy Schroder
ze if there is something rudimentary that I am missing here. Andy Schroder On 02/22/2015 08:02 PM, Andreas Schildbach wrote: On 02/23/2015 12:32 AM, Andy Schroder wrote: I guess we need to decide whether we want to consider NFC communication private or not. I don't know that I think it can b

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-25 Thread Andy Schroder
over NFC has to be better than a unique session key. It adds one more step, but seems to help. If we do this, can we then safely get rid of the h= parameter? That should make Mike Hearn happy, and also may alleviate the base64url debate? Andy Schroder On 02/23/2015 09:55 PM, Eric

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-25 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 02/23/2015 10:09 AM, Jan Vornberger wrote: Hey! On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:37:16PM -0500, Andy Schroder wrote: It's maybe not a bad idea for the wallet to try all payment_url mechanisms in parallel. Should we add this as a recommendation to wallets in TBIP75? It do

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-25 Thread Andy Schroder
wallet can still maintain backwards compatibility. Andy Schroder On 02/24/2015 05:14 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: * Add a "s=" parameter that uses a unique public key for each session. This public key identifies the payee to the payer and payer to the payee. This would be the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-25 Thread Andy Schroder
rs based on the public key they are encrypting the data with. Is this approach feasible? * When you said a new public key for each tap, do you see that as every single tap, or do you consider multiple taps from the same customer the same tap? Andy Schroder On 02/24/2015 06:28 AM, Eric Vosku

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-28 Thread Andy Schroder
. See other e-mails now that the e-mail list finally forwarded them through the other day. Now for Eric's e-mail... More below. On 02/24/2015 09:09 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: On 02/24/2015 02:50 PM, Andy Schroder wrote: We can change "resource" to "Ses

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
limit spam. Any thoughts? Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 05:35 AM, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:25:12AM +0200, xor wrote: >> http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/ > All our downloa

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
n idea what the load may be. I've been told there are about 1,200 subscribers. http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 02:02 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I'll sponsor it, if we agree to implement a HashCash spam filter in the next 6 months. I'v

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
gital signatures are always broken on messages because the list server slightly modifies them (?), so my e-mail client doesn't verify them all. Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 02:36 PM, s7r wrote: The mail list is public, so it's not like the data on it is somehow sensitive. Sourcefoge is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:03 PM, Peter Todd wrote: 4. Seems like digital signatures are always broken on messages because the list server slightly modifies them (?), so my e-mail client doesn't verify them all. What type of digital signatures specifically? What email c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:20 PM, Peter Todd wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:12:02PM -0400, Andy Schroder wrote: Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:03 PM, Peter Todd wrote: 4. Seems like digital signatures are always broken on messages because the list server slightly modifies them

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
non plain text data. Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:43 PM, Peter Todd wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:36:42PM -0400, Andy Schroder wrote: It's possible that the enigmail extension is not working right, but I was under the impression that it is just feeding data to gpg and then receivin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Move Bitcoin Dev List to a Neutral Competent Entity

2015-06-14 Thread Andy Schroder
art of the migration plan, but I guess is this easy to do from SourceForge? Andy Schroder On 06/14/2015 06:12 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: Discomfort with Sourceforge For a while now people have been expressing concern about Sourceforge's continued hosting of the bitcoin-dev mailing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Move Bitcoin Dev List to a Neutral Competent Entity

2015-06-14 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 06/14/2015 11:19 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Jeff Garzik <mailto:jgar...@bitpay.com>> wrote: * ACK on moving away from SourceForge mailing lists - though only once a community-welcomed replacement is up and running * ACK