{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2016-09-09\n📝 Original message:On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42:30AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:\n\u003e The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties\n\u003e to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early\n\u003e on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting).\n\n\u003csnip\u003e\n\n\u003e One of the facilities in the alert system is that you can send a\n\u003e maximum sequence alert which cannot be overridden and displays only a\n\u003e static key compromise text message and blocks all other alerts. I plan\n\u003e to send a triggering alert in the not-distant future (exact time to be\n\u003e announced well in advance) feedback on timing would be welcome.\n\u003e \n\u003e There are likely a few production systems that automatically shut down\n\u003e when there is an alert, so this risks some small one-time disruption\n\u003e of those services-- but none worse than if an alert were sent to\n\u003e advise about a new system upgrade.\n\u003e \n\u003e At some point after that, I would then plan to disclose this private\n\u003e key in public, eliminating any further potential of reputation attacks\n\u003e and diminishing the risk of misunderstanding the key as some special\n\u003e trusted source of authority.\n\nACK\n\nGood to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P\nnetwork is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to software\nthat has removed alert functionality; better that the final alert key\nretirement message is reliably seen by the remaining software out there in a\npredictable way than this be something that happens unpredictably.\n\n-- \nhttps://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: signature.asc\nType: application/pgp-signature\nSize: 455 bytes\nDesc: Digital signature\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20160910/972d0258/attachment.sig\u003e"}