From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: "Ryan X. Charles" <ryan@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 proposed changes
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:18:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3mUnU9h20V_Ss_FH0md91PnKhUTKmuM_8rPPuZuvjdJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5303B110.70603@bitpay.com>
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> On an unrelated note, X.509 is a terrible standard that should be
> abandoned as quickly as possible. BitPay is working on a new standard
> based on bitcoin-like addresses for authentication. It would be great if
> we could work with the community to establish a complete, decentralized
> authentication protocol. The sooner we can evolve beyond X.509 the better.
Because this is such a common sentiment, I wrote a couple of articles on
the matter.
The first is about why BIP 70 uses the SSL PKI and an examination of the
most commonly proposed alternative ideas:
https://medium.com/p/b64cf5912aa7
... including the web of trust, using bitcoin addresses/the block chain,
allowing multiple certs, trust-on-first-use and (for SSL only)
perspectives/convergence.
The second is a summary of some of the most famous crypto-usability
research papers published in the past 10-15 years. They cover SSL and PGP.
If you're interested in designing alternatives, reading these papers would
be a good place to start:
https://medium.com/p/d04ea6a2c771
There's a book from O'Reilly called Security & Usability that contains 34
papers and essays. It's very good:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596008277.do
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 17:31 Andreas Schildbach
2014-02-18 19:14 ` Ryan X. Charles
2014-02-18 20:15 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-02-18 21:40 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-02-19 14:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-02-19 16:44 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-06 2:35 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-05-06 8:22 ` Alon Muroch
2014-02-18 21:47 ` Peter Todd
2014-02-18 23:41 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2014-02-18 22:02 ` Derber
2014-02-21 15:34 ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-05 10:18 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
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