On 2 November 2013 17:26, Mike Hearn 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 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... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that > developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white > paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep > Android apps secure. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >