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From: slush <slush@centrum•cz>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:58:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJna-Hhg9DO4jeuU3nEL2jJGPyxZXpeOLTQe1w8zjT6wqi+kXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112181644.44134.luke@dashjr.org>

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Maybe I'm retarded, but where's the point in providing alliases containing
yet another hash in URL?

slush

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:

> On Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:05:11 PM Jorge Timón wrote:
> > If we chose the simple URI proposal namecoin can still be integrated
> > to map the IP of the server by those who want to.
> > Does it removes the necessity of the certificates?
> > If so, we should let people decide between HTTP, HTTPS, namecoin or
> > whatever they trust.
>
> How are you going to authenticate the host? Certificates from CAs are how
> HTTPS does it. HTTP is vulnerable. If the URI contains an address (eg,
> bitcoin://remotehost/base58key), the remote host could sign its
> (self-signed)
> SSL key with the ECDSA key to prove authenticity. DNSSEC/namecoin
> presumably
> has some way to do this as well.
>
> > Shouldn't we be also discussing the valid format of the answered
> > message? I mean fields like "amount", "concept" and such.
>
> At some point, a proper protocol to negotiate payment is needed for
> anything
> like this.
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12 22:21 Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:25 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:32 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13  4:38 ` theymos
2011-12-13  7:41   ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-15 19:59 ` theymos
2011-12-15 23:56   ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16  2:37   ` Kyle Henderson
2011-12-16  4:32     ` Walter Stanish
2011-12-16  2:48   ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-16 17:23   ` Khalahan
2011-12-16 19:54     ` slush
2011-12-16 20:10       ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16 20:14         ` Harald Schilly
2011-12-16 21:52       ` Khalahan
2011-12-16 22:05         ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-18 21:05           ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-18 21:18             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 21:44             ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18 23:58               ` slush [this message]
2011-12-19  1:13                 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19  1:14                 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-19  1:43                   ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19  1:44                   ` slush
2011-12-19  7:56                     ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 11:44                       ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-19 14:46                         ` solar
2011-12-19 15:35                           ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-19 16:35                         ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:13                           ` solar
2011-12-19 16:30                       ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:04                         ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 17:09                           ` slush
2011-12-19 18:13                             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:17                               ` slush
2011-12-19 18:50                                 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 20:03                                   ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:22                                 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:15                           ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 18:52                             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:16                               ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 20:03                                 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-16  8:35 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:03   ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 16:17     ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:21       ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 17:21     ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-12 23:16 Zell Faze
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-12 23:41   ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13  2:39     ` Stefan Thomas
2011-12-12 23:52   ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Will

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