From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Optional "wallet-linkable" address format - Payment Protocol
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:54:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130619135403.GA1783@vps7135.xlshosting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BFD886.8000701@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:48:22PM -0400, Alan Reiner wrote:
> _*Goal*_: An alternative address format made possible by BIP 32, which
> allows one to specify a "Wallet ID" and "One-time payment" code, instead
> of the standard one-use Base58-Hash160 addresses. This allows parties
> with a persistent relationship to be able to prove that payment
> addresses they provide each other are linked to a particular wallet,
> reducing exposure to MitM attacks without the need for SSL or a web of
> trust, and without compromising the privacy of either party. For
> instance, this could be used between businesses that frequently do
> business, by exchanging and verifying public keys beforehand, or could
> be used by an exchange to identify if a customer withdrawal address is
> related to their last deposit address, and if not enforce extra
> authentication measures.
Have you seen Timo Hanke's pay-to-contract presentation at the San Jose
conference? It seems very related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyALGlG33Q
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-19 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-18 3:48 Alan Reiner
2013-06-19 12:19 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-19 13:37 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-19 13:54 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2013-06-19 14:25 ` Timo Hanke
2013-06-19 14:39 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-19 15:28 ` Adam Back
2013-06-19 18:36 ` Adam Back
2013-06-19 19:00 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-20 7:48 ` Timo Hanke
2013-06-20 9:10 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-06-20 16:09 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-19 20:03 ` Timo Hanke
2013-06-19 19:29 Jeremy Spilman
2013-06-19 20:10 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-19 21:58 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-06-19 22:47 ` Alan Reiner
2013-06-20 3:54 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-06-20 7:32 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-26 15:29 ` Alan Reiner
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