Re: [Bitcoin-development] Subject: Re: Proposal to address Bitcoin malware

2015-02-03 Thread Will
to catch on and become cost competitive. I think the key is making it invisible to the user. From: Adam Weiss Reply: Adam Weiss > Date: February 3, 2015 at 12:25:20 PM To: Will > Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject:  Re: [Bitcoin-development] Subject: Re: Proposal t

[Bitcoin-development] Subject: Re: Proposal to address Bitcoin malware

2015-02-03 Thread Will
An idea for the bitcoin malware proposal below, the idea is at the bottom… Using a desktop website and mobile device for 2/3 multisig in lieu of a hardware device (trezor) and desktop website (mytrezor) works, but the key is that the device used to input the two signatures cannot be in the same

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reading List for Getting Up to Speed

2014-12-24 Thread Will Bickford
Gotcha. That's much more manageable. Thanks! Will Bickford "In Google We Trust" On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Will Bickford wrote: > > A tally from August indicated that I may need to slog through 280,000 >

[Bitcoin-development] Reading List for Getting Up to Speed

2014-12-24 Thread Will Bickford
could get a fair amount of testing done, so I'm curious if we have a map of the most important areas to study for new developers and automated test writers. Thanks for your time, Will Bickford "In Google We Trust" ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Area of Focus

2014-12-20 Thread Will Bickford
Thanks Jeff. I'll start looking there. Will Bickford "In Google We Trust" On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Getting back to the original topic... > > I would recommend first taking a look at how the current tests are built > (via autoconf/automa

[Bitcoin-development] Area of Focus

2014-12-19 Thread Will Bickford
eddit AMA a while ago. I'm curious where I can make the best impact. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks! Will Bickford "In Google We Trust" -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

2013-07-09 Thread Will
Omaha - which is the automatic update framework that Google Chrome uses - is open sourced: https://code.google.com/p/omaha/ It might be a bit heavyweight for just one package though. Will On 9 July 2013 13:04, Mike Hearn wrote: > For the auto update, is there an existing auto upd

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin pull requests

2013-04-01 Thread Will
source and easily peer reviewed. Will On 1 April 2013 23:52, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > On 1 April 2013 20:28, Petr Praus wrote: > >> An attacker would have to find a collision between two specific pieces of >> code - his malicious code and a useful innoculous c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Roadmap to getting users onto SPV clients

2012-12-04 Thread Will
well engineered, and satisfies many of the features in particular a very low cost of entry, cross platform support and what appears to be very good security (e.g. two factor) Will On 4 December 2012 17:46, Mike Hearn wrote: > At the moment if you visit bitcoin.org then you're recommended

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Will
Are there any PGP key servers that support EC key pairs? OpenPGP Spec RFC2440 defines key types for EC, just not sure if they were ever implemented on the keyserver side. Could even have a similar 'web of trust' using private keys to sign people's identities similar to PGP. Will

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-08 Thread Will
use the correct key. This means that if we later decide to add new keys to the alert root trust then older clients will still relay these. my .02btc Will -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop Wh