Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 151

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:36:00 +0000

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> An "out of band key check" is not part of BIP151.

It has a session ID for this purpose.

> It requires a secure channel and is authentication. So BIP151 doesn't provide the tools to detect an attack, that requires authentication. A general requirement for authentication is the issue I have raised.

One might wonder how you ever use a Bitcoin address, or even why we
might guess these emails from "you" aren't actually coming from the
NSA.