From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Hannu Kotipalo <hannu.kotipalo@iki•fi>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:26:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2N1DRBcN4JuXKJAodKwk=qNk5hiSnLyx1vbQ1gAd=EhQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5274FBF7.90301@iki.fi>
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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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-02 16:26 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 [this message]
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
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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