From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
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On 2 November 2013 17:26, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> Guys, identity systems for the web are off-topic for this list. Other than
> the anonymous passports/SINs/fidelity bond ideas, Bitcoin doesn't have any
> relevance to it.
>
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Hannu Kotipalo <hannu.kotipalo@iki•fi>wrote:
>
>> Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but the *real* answer to the question
>> "why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-certificates" is that it would force
>> www pages to be encrypted and would make it a lot more difficult for
>> NSA to log www-trafic.
>>
>
> No, it wouldn't. You can log a user in using SSL and then redirect the
> user back to an encrypted page, using cookies for the rest of the session.
> Please don't clutter up this list with conspiracy theories. The brutal
> reality is that identity is a hard problem.
>
Identity need not be a hard problem. In my view it is a solved problem.
You have a real world entity translated to a digital format. Yes that can
be slightly ambiguous at time, naming is hard, and people do get this wrong
frequently.
The most common problem is to name something in a way that does not scale.
The solution to this problem is rather easy, and that is to use a URI to
name something, which makes it global and scalable.
In the case of bitcoin you could have use the bitcion URI scheme
bitcion:1fhdjkfhjksf...
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-02 16:52 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 [this message]
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
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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