From: Khalahan <khal@dot-bit•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:52:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEBBD84.6020907@dot-bit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJna-HjXp4XEHnbmX0HKsMDmnxoWQQMmqujN+D9nLV0Zz_omcg@mail.gmail.com>
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The number of proposals <https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015> is not
infinite, here are their problems :
- FirstBits : centralized
- DNS TXT Records : DNSSEC is required to have a minimum of security,
limits usage to engineers, limits usage to some domain names (i won't be
able to use a gmail address for example, because i don't control the
gmail.com domain)
- Server Service (DNS + a daemon) : Same as DNS TXT records
- HTTPS Web service : relies on HTTPS and CA, bitcoin needs to be able
to check the full certificate chain and access a list of up-to-date
certificate authorities (installed on the OS or provided with bitcoin).
And don't forget the CA model is not 100% reliable (several CA hacked
this year + possible government control...).
- IP Transactions : /This proposal seeks to enable DNS lookups for IP
transactions/ => same as above
I know that providing a namecoin daemon with bitcoin is not the lighter
solution, but, if a better one existed i guess it would have already
been integrated into bitcoin... (see in what state is my first attempt
with the HTTPS proposal : Send payments to emails, urls and domains in
GUI <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/174> - /khalahan opened
this pull request April 20, 2011/)
So, what's next ?
Le 16/12/2011 20:54, slush a écrit :
> Khalahan, honestly, using namecoin for aliases is (for me) clean
> example of over-engineering. I mean - it will definitely work if
> implemented properly. I played with a namecoin a bit (as my pool was
> the first 'big' pool supporting merged mining), but I think there's
> really long way to provide such alias system in namecoin and *cleanly
> integrate it with bitcoin*. Don't forget that people who want to do
> lookup need to maintain also namecoin blockchain with their bitcoin
> client. It goes against my instinct of keeping stuff easy.
>
> For example, yesterday I implemented HTTPS lookup for addresses into
> my fork of Electrum client. I did it in 15 minutes, it works as
> expected, it does the job and the implementation is really
> transparent, becuase implementation is 20 lines of code. There's no
> magic transformation, no forced "?handle=" parameters or whatever. And
> I don't care if somebody provide URL
> https://some.strange.domain/name-of-my-dog?myhandle=5678iop&anything_else=True
> <https://some.strange.domain/name-of-my-dog?myhandle=5678iop&anything_else=True>
>
> And everybody can do the same in their clients, in their merchant
> solutions, websites or whatever. Everybody can do HTTPS lookup. But
> try to explain DNS, Namecoin, IIBAN, email aliases to other programmers...
>
> Those IIBAN - well, why not. At least I see the potential in PR. So
> far I understand it as some teoretic concept which is not supported by
> anything else right now. Give it few years until it matures and then
> add IIBAN alias to Bitcoin client too.
>
> Maybe I'm repeating myself already, but the way to go is to make
> aliases as easy as possible, so everybody can implement it in their
> own solution and thus practially remove the need of using standard
> bitcoin addresses for normal users. Using some superior technology,
> which is hard to implement or even understand won't solve the
> situation, because it will ends up with some reference implementation
> in standard client only and nobody else will use it.
>
> slush
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Best Regards,
Khalahan
http://dot-bit.org/
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 22:21 Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:25 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:32 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13 4:38 ` theymos
2011-12-13 7:41 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-15 19:59 ` theymos
2011-12-15 23:56 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16 2:37 ` Kyle Henderson
2011-12-16 4:32 ` Walter Stanish
2011-12-16 2:48 ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-16 17:23 ` Khalahan
2011-12-16 19:54 ` slush
2011-12-16 20:10 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16 20:14 ` Harald Schilly
2011-12-16 21:52 ` Khalahan [this message]
2011-12-16 22:05 ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-18 21:05 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-18 21:18 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 21:44 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18 23:58 ` slush
2011-12-19 1:13 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 1:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-19 1:43 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 1:44 ` slush
2011-12-19 7:56 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 11:44 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-19 14:46 ` solar
2011-12-19 15:35 ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-19 16:35 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:13 ` solar
2011-12-19 16:30 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:04 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 17:09 ` slush
2011-12-19 18:13 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:17 ` slush
2011-12-19 18:50 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 20:03 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:22 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:15 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 18:52 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:16 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 20:03 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-16 8:35 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:03 ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 16:17 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:21 ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 17:21 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-12 23:16 Zell Faze
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-12 23:41 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13 2:39 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-12-12 23:52 ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Will
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