Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Or alternatively, fix the reasons why users would have negative experiences with full blocks It's impossible, Mark. *By definition* if Bitcoin does not have sufficient capacity for everyone's transactions, some users who

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue

2014-07-15 Thread Brooks Boyd
I was part of adding in that test vector, and I think it's a good test vector since it is an extreme edge-case of the current definition: If the BIP38 proposal allows any password that can be in UTF-8, NFC normalized form, those characters cover the various edge cases (combining characters, null

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency

2014-05-19 Thread Brooks Boyd
2014-05-18 13:14 GMT+01:00 Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de: One problem we couldn't figure out here though - how to protect the notes from unauthorized redeem. Like if someone else tries to reach your wallet with his own NFC - how can we distinguish between deliberate redeem by owner

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Physical key / edge detection software and PIN to generate private key

2014-03-14 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Jack Scott jack.scott.pub...@gmail.comwrote: BIP: XX Title: Physical key / edge detection software and PIN to generate a Bitcoin private key Author: Jack Scott Status: Idea Type: Standard Track Created: 13-3-2014 Abstract: A method is proposed to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-06 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Mar 6, 2014 3:47 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: I just did my first contactless nfc payment with a MasterCard. It worked very well and was quite delightful - definitely want to be doing more of these in future. I think people will come to expect this kind of no-friction payment

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoinj 0.11 released, with p2sh, bip39 and payment protocol support

2014-02-05 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:17:47PM +0100, Natanael wrote: Because it's trivial to create collisions! You can choose exactly what output you want. That's why XOR is a very bad digest scheme. You're close, but not quite.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039: Final call

2014-01-20 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, slush sl...@centrum.cz wrote: Hi all, during recent months we've reconsidered all comments which we received from the community about our BIP39 proposal and we tried to meet all requirements for such standard. Specifically the proposal now doesn't require

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor / SPV

2014-01-15 Thread Brooks Boyd
My goal here is not necessarily to hide P2P nodes - we still need lots of clearnet P2P nodes for the forseeable future no matter what. Rather we're just using hidden services as a way to get authentication and encryption. Actually the 6-hop hidden service circuits are overkill for this

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-11-01 Thread Brooks Boyd
I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on some of these discussions about BIP39, which I think will have great use in the Bitcoin community and outside it as a way to transcribe binary data. The one thought I had as the discussions about similar characters are resulting in culling