From: Kyle Henderson <k@old•school.nz>
To: theymos <theymos@mm•st>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:37:03 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+QPp0qGohZO2o-a0D1kxOE==w8keX=uvO_PDcDRHbP=sTTN5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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This is the first proposal I've seen regarding mapping something like
user@host that actually makes sense to me.
Bitcoin itself is decentralised by design, in my opinion it seems obvious
that it needs to continue to maintain this feature.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, theymos <theymos@mm•st> wrote:
> Bitcoin already has code and a protocol for transactions to IP
> addresses. Why not reuse that for dynamic address lookup? Just a few
> changes are necessary to enable complete user@server•com handling:
> - Extend the protocol so that "reply" messages can be signed by a fixed
> public key
> - Extend "checkorder" messages so they can specify an account to
> send BTC to. Or standardize on how to put the account into the
> message field.
> - Enable DNS lookups for IP transactions. The DNS-only proposals could
> also be used here to avoid having to use the IP transaction protocol
> sometimes. The public key for signing "reply" messages can be gotten
> from TXT records. This will be safe with DNSSEC and Namecoin. With
> plain DNS Bitcoin could take a SSH-like approach and ask the user to
> verify the public key the first time it is used, remembering it later.
>
> DoS attacks are already handled by the IP transactions code: the same IP
> address is always given the same bitcoin address until it pays to that
> bitcoin address.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 2:37 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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