From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:00:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0M7iEUQnJ9M4A3ev3EQqxUVQG85qucRamvMb0n-CztOFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Proxying another's idea, from CoinSummit.
The request: It would be useful to limit the lifetime of a bitcoin
address. Intentionally prevent (somehow) bitcoins being sent to a
pubkey/pkh after the key expires.
You could append "don't ["permit"|confirm] after X [time|block]" to
the address I suppose. The metadata would not be digitally signed,
but it would be hash-sealed. As "address" is a client-side notion,
wallet clients would be the ones enforcing such a rule.
Bitcoin protocol of course knows about keys, and key expiration is a
well known and useful concept in public key cryptography. The best
insertion point in the protocol for key expiration is an open
question, if it's even a good idea at that level at all. Some flag
"no more TxOuts exactly like this [after X block?]"?
I readily admit I don't have good answers, but it does seem valuable IMO to
* Prevent users from accidentally sending to an "expired" TxOut/pkh.
This happens in the field.
* Discourage address reuse
* Enable sites that generate lots of keys to rotate ancient keys off
their core systems. (HD wallets mitigate this)
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
next reply other threads:[~2014-07-15 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-15 8:00 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-07-15 8:19 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15 8:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 8:31 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-07-15 8:48 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15 8:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-15 10:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 14:27 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:18 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 15:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:41 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
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