From: Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn•me.uk>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Error handling in payment protocol (BIP-0070 and BIP-0072)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:43:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535BF056.6080804@jrn.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3TuN2LFi3_7z29JncojbOZX=C-1BsJMp1AJ56k8wjgBg@mail.gmail.com>
I'd be very cautious of security implications of embedding files into
the payment request. Even file formats one would presume safe, such as
images, have had security issues (i.e.
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms11-006 )
Longer term I was wondering about embedding the PaymentRequest into web
pages directly via the <object> tag, which could eliminate need for
BIP0072 and potentially improve user interface integration that way.
Obviously this would require browser plugins, however.
Ross
On 26/04/14 18:36, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> PaymentRequests are limited to 50,000 bytes. I can't think of a reason why
>> Payment messages would need to be any bigger than that. Submit a pull
>> request to the existing BIP.
>>
> In future it might be nice to have images and things in the payment
> requests, to make UIs look prettier. But with the current version 50kb
> should be plenty indeed.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-26 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-25 19:54 J Ross Nicoll
2014-04-25 22:33 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-04-26 13:23 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-04-26 16:45 ` Ross Nicoll
2014-04-26 17:36 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-26 17:43 ` Ross Nicoll [this message]
2014-04-27 7:53 ` Kevin Greene
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