From: William Yager <will.yager@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key with optional encryption
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:55:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG8oi1M_jnn9vzHjN5h+0x-dYEKudgJ-DEqOKrdv-sCDaFV3NA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5320B7F1.8060701@gk2.sk>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2•sk> wrote:
> On 03/12/2014 08:26 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman wrote:
> > So upon entering a password with a typo, the user will not be notified
> of an
> > error, but be presented with a wallet balance of 0, after the blockchain
> has
> > been scanned. I'm sorry, but that's not the kind of experience I would
> want to
> > present to my users.
>
> Sure, you can have either plausible deniability or typo checking, not
> both at the same time.
>
>
The proposed BIP uses a bloom filter, so it has both plausible deniability *and
*typo checking. The bloom filter is optimized for two elements and will
catch something like 99.9975% of typos, despite allowing two different
passwords.
> Would you care to elaborate how optional outsourcing of the KDF breaks
> > compatibility?
>
> I'm afraid one would end up with code generated in one client that is
> unusable in a different client, because the client's developer thought
> that using fancier algorithm instead of the proposed ones was a good idea.
>
>
This is clearly in violation of the spec. You could argue this about
anything in Bitcoin. What if a developer decided to replace SHA256 with
SHA3 in their implementation of a Bitcoin client? Obviously this would
cause issues.
Will
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-07-19 18:15 ` [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet master seed " Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-07-22 13:14 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-22 14:33 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-07-22 21:37 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-11-16 2:47 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-11-16 3:09 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-12-26 11:48 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 3:17 ` [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key " Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 13:11 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 15:45 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 15:55 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 16:49 ` Gary Rowe
2014-03-12 18:00 ` William Yager
2014-03-12 19:35 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 19:41 ` Gary Rowe
2014-03-12 19:26 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 19:39 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 19:55 ` William Yager [this message]
2014-03-12 20:04 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:10 ` William Yager
2014-03-12 20:24 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:37 ` William Yager
2014-03-12 20:42 ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:49 ` William Yager
2014-03-12 21:08 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 21:15 ` William Yager
2014-04-22 0:05 William Yager
2014-04-24 19:39 ` William Yager
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