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From: Alfie John <alfie@alfie•wtf>
To: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil•org>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:17:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160629111728.GO13338@dosf1.alfie.wtf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <360EF9B8-A174-41CA-AFDD-2BC2C0B4DECB@voskuil.org>

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 06:45:58PM +0200, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > then we should definitively use a form of end-to-end encryption between
> > nodes. Built into the network layer.
> 
> Widespread application of this model is potentially problematic. It is a
> non-trivial problem to design a distributed system that requires authentication
> but without identity and without central control. In fact this may be more
> challenging than Bitcoin itself. Trust on first use (TOFU) does not solve this
> problem.

Maybe the following paper can feed into this discussion:

  "Decentralized Anonymous Credentials" by Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers
	https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/622.pdf

Alfie

-- 
Alfie John
https://www.alfie.wtf


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-29 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-28  2:31 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 use of HMAC_SHA512 Rusty Russell
2016-06-28  7:17 ` [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28  8:26   ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-28 16:45     ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 18:22       ` Peter Todd
2016-06-28 18:35         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 20:14           ` Peter Todd
2016-06-28 20:29             ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 20:36               ` Peter Todd
2016-06-28 21:22                 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 21:36                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-06-28 21:40                     ` Cameron Garnham
2016-06-28 22:07                       ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 22:33                         ` Cameron Garnham
2016-06-28 23:29                           ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-29  0:06                             ` Nick ODell
2016-06-28 21:59                     ` Eric Voskuil
     [not found]                       ` <CAAS2fgQ0Ocs8hF+pf+fWfkKKhQwxNKpY=JHpb_bwua7neVO8tg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-28 23:34                         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 20:06       ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-28 23:31         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-29 11:17       ` Alfie John [this message]
2016-06-30 11:56         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-30 12:20           ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-30 12:27             ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-30 12:43               ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-30 15:22                 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-30 16:52                   ` Peter Todd
2016-06-30 18:25                     ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-30 19:06                       ` Peter Todd
2016-06-30 20:26                         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28 19:55     ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-06-28 23:33       ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-29  1:01         ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-06-30  9:57           ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-30 13:03             ` Pieter Wuille
2016-06-30 15:10               ` Eric Voskuil
2016-08-31 14:29                 ` Pieter Wuille
2016-06-30 13:36             ` Erik Aronesty
2016-06-30 14:47               ` Alfie John
2016-07-02  9:44               ` Chris Priest
2016-06-28 12:13   ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-28 17:39     ` Eric Voskuil
2016-06-28  7:19 ` [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151 use of HMAC_SHA512 Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-28  8:31   ` Arthur Chen
2016-06-29 18:34     ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-29 20:13       ` Peter Todd
2016-06-29 20:31         ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-06-29  1:00   ` Rusty Russell
2016-06-29  1:38     ` Arthur Chen
2016-06-29  1:56     ` Ethan Heilman
2016-06-29  6:58       ` Pieter Wuille
2016-06-29 14:38         ` Ethan Heilman
2016-06-29 18:46           ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-07-01  3:25       ` Rusty Russell
2016-07-01 22:42         ` Zooko Wilcox
2016-07-04  1:23           ` Arthur Chen
2016-07-04  1:44             ` Arthur Chen
2016-07-04  6:47               ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-07-04  6:37           ` Jonas Schnelli

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