From: Allen Piscitello <allen.piscitello@gmail•com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:36:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfRnm6_Q2Meoc1wu7Ppa1BpaZQuhdHP5uxZO3UtKppkDXVdWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201311030127.43010.luke@dashjr.org>
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Required vs. strongly recommended is an important distinction. Satoshi
Dice reuses EC Keys for every single transaction. Exchanges will have the
same address you deposit in over and over, which gets reused. This is a
best practice argument rather than a protocol requirement.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 03, 2013 1:19:51 AM Allen Piscitello wrote:
> > I actually had a use case in my case where it was possible, and that was
> > the check I used to get around it, just configured it so that I always
> > generated a new key when I needed to set up a 2 of 2 Multisig Refund Tx.
> > It was either that or making sure I had no unspent outputs. The use
> case
> > of doing it was laziness in just creating a single key.
>
> Use cases mean an actual use, not mere laziness. Bitcoin as a system has
> always required a unique EC key (and address) for each transaction.
>
> Luke
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-03 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-02 5:01 bitcoingrant
2013-11-02 5:54 ` Luke-Jr
2013-11-02 13:02 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 13:16 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 13:19 ` Hannu Kotipalo
2013-11-02 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 16:52 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 17:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-02 17:16 ` Hannu Kotipalo
2013-11-02 21:14 ` Johnathan Corgan
2013-11-02 21:51 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-11-03 0:29 ` Allen Piscitello
2013-11-03 0:33 ` Luke-Jr
2013-11-03 1:19 ` Allen Piscitello
2013-11-03 1:27 ` Luke-Jr
2013-11-03 1:36 ` Allen Piscitello [this message]
2013-11-03 6:23 ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-06 3:38 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 21:57 ` slush
2013-11-06 3:01 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-06 6:41 ` slush
2013-12-06 10:44 ` Melvin Carvalho
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