From: Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:57:43 -0700 [thread overview]
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I'm not convinced that wallet seed interoperability is such a great thing.
There is a wide variability in the quality and security level of wallet
implementations and platforms. Each new device and wallet software a user
types their seed into increases their attack surface and exposure to flaws.
Their security level is reduced to the lowest common denominator. I see the
need for a "fire exit", certainly, but we must also remember that fire
exits are potential entrances for intruders.
Aaron Voisine
co-founder and CEO
breadwallet.com
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Ricardo Filipe
> <ricardojdfilipe@gmail•com> wrote:
> > i guess you look at the glass half full :)
> > even though what you say is true, we should aim for wallets not to
> > require those instructions, by standardizing these things in BIPs.
> > let's hope bitcoin doesn't fail in standards as our industries have in
> > the past...
>
> There are genuine principled disagreements on how some things should
> be done. There are genuine differences in functionality.
>
> We cannot expect and should not expect complete compatibility. If you
> must have complete compatibility: use the same software (or maybe not
> even then, considering how poor the forward compatibility of some
> things has been..).
>
> What we can hope to do, and I think the best we can hope to do, is to
> minimize the amount of gratuitous incompatibility and reduce the
> amount of outright flawed constructions (so if there are choices which
> must be made, they're at least choices among relatively good options).
>
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-01 15:23 Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-02 7:09 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-02 15:37 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-02 17:11 ` Jim
2015-03-11 14:58 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 15:31 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 8:56 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 17:14 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 19:04 ` Jim
2015-03-11 19:24 ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-03-11 19:46 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-11 22:57 ` Aaron Voisine [this message]
2015-03-11 23:22 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 23:50 ` devrandom
2015-03-11 23:54 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12 0:11 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12 2:41 ` devrandom
2015-03-12 4:09 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12 19:08 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-03-12 10:30 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 10:28 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-18 2:06 ` devrandom
2015-03-12 10:41 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 3:43 ` slush
2015-03-12 16:47 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12 17:20 ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 17:42 ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 18:27 ` Natanael
2015-03-12 18:51 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 19:14 ` Natanael
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2015-03-12 2:16 ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 3:59 ` Neill Miller
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2015-03-12 2:26 ` devrandom
2015-03-12 2:38 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 10:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 4:21 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 11:51 ` Neill Miller
2015-03-12 12:59 ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 16:39 ` devrandom
2015-03-12 5:12 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 5:25 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-03-12 5:58 Thy Shizzle
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