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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Wendell <w@grabhive•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:36:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2Ewq4+xT+FCaB_U64QNSW-QA6SooUus+Ad0=DNbh-erA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2BC93E25-27D2-474E-842D-6684E96E9472@grabhive.com>

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The payment protocol doesn't *require* signed certificates, it just gives
the option of using them.

However if you don't have some kind of cryptographic proof of identity,
what stops me putting your name and face into my payment requests and
claiming to be you?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-17 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06 15:07 Wendell
2013-09-06 22:47 ` Eric Lombrozo
2013-09-16 14:05   ` Wendell
2013-09-17  9:30     ` Wendell
2013-09-17 10:03       ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-17 12:05         ` Wendell
2013-09-17 12:36           ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2013-09-07 21:44 ` Mike Hearn
2013-09-09  7:26   ` Wendell
2013-09-09 11:43     ` Mike Hearn

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