From: "Arthur - bitcoin-fr.io" <arthur@bitcoin-fr•io>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] URI scheme for signing and verifying messages
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:57:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5f5105e2d5b9cc1873f84cb0b172285@rainloop.aaawop.com> (raw)
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Hi,I realized that there isn't any way to ask for a signature (or to verify a message) as easily you can do when requesting a payment using a bitcoin URI scheme (BIP0021).I think a URI scheme to use the signing tools in bitcoin core might be useful, and with a proper consensus it could become available in most bitcoin clients who already support message signing/verifying and payment url (or QRCode) and enable new uses of bitcoin signatures.A way to gain proper consensus is going through a BIP, so that's why I'm here: to present my idea publicly before going any further (draft BIP and reference implementation).Some thoughts - like BIP0021: "Bitcoin clients MUST NOT act on URIs without getting the user's authorization." so signing requires the user to manually approve the process - it could use the same URI scheme than BIP0021 with an additional parameter (ex: signaction=) or use another one like BIP121 (ex: btcsig:)PS : I'll also post a topic in "Development & Technical Discussion" section on Bitcointalk
--Arthur Bouquet
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-14 18:57 Arthur - bitcoin-fr.io [this message]
2015-09-14 23:51 ` Thomas Kerin
2015-09-15 4:03 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-15 10:49 ` Arthur - bitcoin-fr.io
2015-09-15 12:08 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-15 13:21 ` Arthur - bitcoin-fr.io
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