On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:33:25PM +0100, Timo Hanke wrote:
Why don't you use namecoin or another alt-chain for this?
Because namcoin tries to solve a different problem, DNS, whereas I want
to establish an identity for a payment protocol. Your incoming payments
will land on addresses that
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 07:01:48PM +, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:33:25 PM Timo Hanke wrote:
namcoin tries to solve a different problem, DNS, whereas I want
to establish an identity for a payment protocol.
What is the technical difference here? Namecoin ties names
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Timo Hanke timo.ha...@web.de wrote:
It's not about technical differences, but about the different use or
purpose, which can result in different security demands. I argue that
DNS has a lower demand in this respect than payment ids have. So DNS
data can be in a
I prefer to leverage the signing of the (.) root in the DNS tree. The
amount of effort in signing the root holds more weight than building a CA
off the bitcoin blockchain.
If you want to associate identifiers for payment addresses I suggest
putting those in DNSSEC signed records in the DNS.
For
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:01:08AM -0500, Peter Todd wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:03:54AM +0100, Timo Hanke wrote:
First, we have drafted a quite general specification for bitcoin
certificates (protobuf messages) that allow for a variety of payment
protocols (e.g. static as well as
On Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:33:25 PM Timo Hanke wrote:
Why don't you use namecoin or another alt-chain for this?
Because namcoin tries to solve a different problem, DNS, whereas I want
to establish an identity for a payment protocol.
What is the technical difference here? Namecoin ties
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:03:54AM +0100, Timo Hanke wrote:
First, we have drafted a quite general specification for bitcoin certificates
(protobuf messages) that allow for a variety of payment protocols (e.g.
static as well as customer-side-generated payment addresses).
This part has surely
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