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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
	Jonas Schnelli <dev@jonasschnelli•ch>
Cc: Pavol Rusnak via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hardware Wallet Standard
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:22:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201608161922.30588.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57B31EBC.1030806@jonasschnelli.ch>

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 2:10:04 PM Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The BIP describes two approaches how to communicate (pipe and
> URI-scheme) with the signing-devices app, although, in my opinion, all
> major platform do support the URI approach (maybe we could drop the pipe
> approach then).

IMO it's kindof ugly to abuse URIs for communication. Stdio pipes are pretty 
universally supported, why not just use those?

On the other hand, no matter how the plugin is implemented, it's still a 
security risk, and requires installation (which the user might not have access 
for). It would be best if the hardware protocol were standardised, so the user 
doesn't need a plugin of *any* sort... I notice some hardware wallets have 
begun to implement (or reuse) Trezor's interface, so that would seem a good 
place to start?

Luke


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-16 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16 14:10 Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-16 14:48 ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-08-16 15:13   ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-16 15:21     ` Pavol Rusnak
2016-08-16 17:48 ` Jochen Hoenicke
2016-08-17  0:25   ` Thomas Kerin
2016-08-17  7:24     ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-17  7:40       ` Nicolas Bacca
2016-08-17 10:13       ` Dana L. Coe
2016-08-17 11:34         ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-17 17:06           ` Marek Palatinus
2016-08-18  6:54             ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-18  9:15               ` Marek Palatinus
2016-08-18  9:35                 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-18  9:43                   ` Marek Palatinus
2016-08-18  9:49                     ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-08-18 10:23                       ` Nicolas Bacca
2016-08-24 10:31                         ` Thomas Kerin
2016-08-16 19:22 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-08-17  0:03   ` Thomas Daede
2016-08-16 23:36 ` Aiqin Li
2016-08-17  0:14   ` Peter Todd
2016-08-17  7:27     ` Nicolas Bacca
2016-08-17 18:36     ` Bryan Bishop
2016-08-22 16:50 ` Moral Agent
2016-08-28 23:14   ` Corey Haddad

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