From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 03:41:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310260341.41613.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRRobkE2GdYomtJof7HCH-9ZczE9EBj7DBS-pCGscUSNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 3:31:05 AM Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> One limitation of the payment protocol as speced is that there is no
> way for a hidden service site to make use of its full authentication
> capability because they are unable to get SSL certificates issued to
> them.
>
> A tor hidden service (onion site) is controlled by an RSA key.
>
> It would be trivial to pack a tor HS pubkey into a self-signed x509
> certificate with the cn set to foooo.onion.
> ...
> Thoughts?
Is there any point to additional encryption over tor (which afaik is already
encrypted end-to-end)? Is there a safe way to make this work through tor entry
nodes/gateways?
It'd be nice to have a way to support namecoin-provided keys too...
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-26 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-26 3:31 Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-26 3:41 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2013-10-26 4:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-28 12:14 ` Adam Back
2013-10-28 13:21 ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-26 3:55 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-26 4:15 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-28 5:58 ` John Dillon
2013-10-28 19:37 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-10-31 0:44 ` Peter Todd
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