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 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 were using

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 ch

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency

2014-05-19 Thread Brooks Boyd
>> 2014-05-18 13:14 GMT+01:00 Andreas Schildbach : >> 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 and fraudul

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 wrote: > 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 generate a Bitcoin privat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-06 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > If there was a way for a Bitcoin user to provide feedback on a payment >> (ECDSA signature from one of the addresses involved in the payment, signing >> an identifier of the payment and a feedback score) >> > > Well now you're getting into the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-06 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > if some sort of Stealth address or HD wallet root was the identity gaining >> the reputation, then address re-use wouldn't have to be mandatory. >> > The identity would be the X.520 name in the signing cert that signed the > payment request. It

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-06 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Mar 6, 2014 3:47 AM, "Mike Hearn" 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 experience and Bitc

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 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. > > So, imag

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039: Final call

2014-01-20 Thread Brooks Boyd
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, slush 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 any specific

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] Tor / SPV

2014-01-15 Thread Brooks Boyd
> > 2) Secondly, we bump the protocol version, add a service flag and > introduce a new P2P protocol command “tor?”. If a client sends a tor? > message to a node that has the new service flag set, it will respond with a > new “tor” message that contains a regular addr packet, with a single > addres

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-11-01 Thread Brooks Boyd
> presented in the wordlist. In this particular case it may be only CAR or > FAR (both cannot be in the wordlist because of rules in similarity). > > Marek > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Brooks Boyd wrote: > >> I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on

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 word