From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net,
Andrew Poelstra <asp11@sfu•ca>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:10:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQSMvCwmeoFSJUyrcikj0wV_r_hLRDrE_v5sA4xt48PDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130325204911.GD65880@giles.gnomon.org.uk>
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk> wrote:
> I'm not envisaging something as drastic as changing the rules to make
> transactions to revoked addresses invalid - just an overlay protocol.
> Although to be useful such a protocol would have to be pretty much
> universally implemented by clients.
That is quite drastic enough, as it requires adding more perpetual
data that must remain in fast lookup for all validating nodes (the set
of revoked 'addresses').
Keep in mind that this is only improvement for what is a usually
inadvisable usage of Bitcoin to begin with... you should not be
reusing addresses.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-25 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-22 23:08 Roy Badami
2013-02-25 9:41 ` Jorge Timón
2013-02-25 19:44 ` Peter Vessenes
[not found] ` <20130225172353.GA7782@malakian.dd-wrt>
2013-03-25 20:49 ` Roy Badami
2013-03-25 21:10 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2013-03-25 21:35 ` Roy Badami
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