Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi writes:
To my mind the difference seemed to be about shallow versus deep parsing. You
can't really deep parse anything in BER with implicit tagging,
You can deep-parse, you just need to apply some basic heuristics (e.g. if
it's an octet string and the first byte is
On 07/07/2011 04:10 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
In some (most?) public key cryptosystems it's possible to prove that a
valid public key has a corresponding private key (that is, there
exists a valid private key for which the given public key *is* the
public key). That's used for public key
On Jul 5, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Alfonso De Gregorio wrote:
Let's assume there is a way to convince market participants that some
Bitcoins has been destroyed, what would happen then? The value of the current
Bitcoin supply would slightly increase, that's correct.
Would market participants be
It is my intuition that nation states of all stripes aren't going to
like them. Some set of them would be happy to let the banks and
speculators take care of it. Some of them would engage in actual
hacking to hurt the currency, and the interesting property that
destroying a bitcoin is a worthwhile
