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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>
To: Chris Priest <cp368202@ohiou•edu>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:22:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQqae4mdSt2eg=Q2wXquUW5qmXBxg_vuiCC4O05rh0_2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAcC9yvdw4Yphs-prpckaouzaU21D=kGRqK+gG9SbPr-=27z9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Chris Priest via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> A better solution is to just have the sending wallet check to see if the
> address you are about to send to has been used before.

So every wallet needs all the addresses ever used and a fast index into them?
This seems pretty harmful for scalability.

> they first consult the address expiration service,

So you propose a best practice that requires contacting a service and
telling them what addresses you're planning on paying?  This seems
pretty harmful for privacy.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-28  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 16:06 Peter Todd
2017-09-27 18:15 ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 19:03 ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-09-27 21:20   ` Peter Todd
2017-09-27 19:35 ` Chris Priest
2017-09-27 20:11   ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 20:23   ` Nick Pudar
2017-09-27 20:19     ` CryptAxe
2017-09-27 21:09     ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-09-27 21:15   ` Peter Todd
2017-09-28  0:22   ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2017-09-27 21:33 ` Peter Todd
2017-09-28  0:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-09-29  1:50   ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29  2:06     ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-09-28 10:09 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 12:43   ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 14:13     ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 14:41       ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 15:06         ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-28 15:45           ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-28 16:59       ` Luke Dashjr
2017-09-29  2:18     ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29  7:18       ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-29  2:55     ` [bitcoin-dev] Why the BIP-72 Payment Protocol URI Standard is Insecure Against MITM Attacks Peter Todd
2017-09-29  4:21       ` Omar Shibli
2017-09-29 13:14       ` Tomas
2017-09-29 17:40         ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-09-30 15:33       ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29  1:45   ` [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173 Peter Todd
2017-09-29  8:44     ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29  9:55       ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29 12:45         ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-09-29 13:52           ` Peter Todd
2017-09-29 17:25           ` Gregory Maxwell

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