From: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup•net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:07:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F37635.5070807@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33D4B2E3-DBF0-444E-B76A-765C4C17E964@ricmoo.com>
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On 08/19/2014 03:30 PM, Richard Moore wrote:
> Oh, I see. I misread, thinking you wanted the dev team to have a
> private key and share the public key, similar to alerts. But each
> peer would have a public/private key pair and use something akin to
> ECDH for a symmetric key and transport using a block cipher?
>
> How would you share the public key? If I were a man-in-the-middle,
> I could intercept the public key, generate my own and pass that
> along and then decouple the pipe when the other side shares their
> public key.
>
> Also, you should not ignore your SSH fingerprint, as you exactly
> open yourself to mitm attacks.
http://curvecp.org
If that's not acceptable, even using TLS with self-signed certificates
would be an improvement.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CA+8=xuJ+YDTNjyDW7DvP8KPN_nrFWpE68HvLw6EokFa-B-QGKw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-08-19 9:49 ` Raúl Martínez
[not found] ` <0C0EF7F9-DBBA-4872-897D-63CFA3853726@ricmoo.com>
2014-08-19 15:11 ` Raúl Martínez
2014-08-19 15:30 ` Richard Moore
2014-08-19 16:07 ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
2014-08-19 16:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 16:58 ` Angel Leon
2014-08-19 17:19 ` Christophe Biocca
2014-08-19 17:35 ` Johnathan Corgan
2014-08-19 23:38 ` J Ross Nicoll
2014-08-19 23:39 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-19 23:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-19 23:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20 0:16 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-20 0:41 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:59 ` William Yager
2014-08-20 1:14 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 1:19 ` William Yager
2014-08-20 1:27 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-20 0:49 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-20 0:57 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-23 16:17 ` xor
2014-08-23 16:50 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-08-23 17:50 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 18:22 ` William Yager
2014-08-23 18:44 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 19:02 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-23 22:51 ` Peter Todd
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2014-08-20 3:23 ` Un Ix
2014-08-20 5:40 ` Cameron Garnham
2014-08-20 14:37 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 6:39 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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