{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1uvtfvcegcn9kds68r8he57emc480vqtx8t22kpsctxgjxae44gvsksaxrt","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1uvtfvcegcn9kds68r8he57emc480vqtx8t22kpsctxgjxae44gvsksaxrt","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2013-11-02\n📝 Original message:On 2 November 2013 17:26, Mike Hearn \u003cmike at plan99.net\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e Guys, identity systems for the web are off-topic for this list. Other than\n\u003e the anonymous passports/SINs/fidelity bond ideas, Bitcoin doesn't have any\n\u003e relevance to it.\n\u003e\n\u003e On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Hannu Kotipalo \u003channu.kotipalo at iki.fi\u003ewrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but the *real* answer to the question\n\u003e\u003e \"why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-certificates\" is that it would force\n\u003e\u003e www pages to be encrypted and would make it a lot more difficult for\n\u003e\u003e NSA to log www-trafic.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e No, it wouldn't. You can log a user in using SSL and then redirect the\n\u003e user back to an encrypted page, using cookies for the rest of the session.\n\u003e Please don't clutter up this list with conspiracy theories. The brutal\n\u003e reality is that identity is a hard problem.\n\u003e\n\nIdentity need not be a hard problem.  In my view it is a solved problem.\n\nYou have a real world entity translated to a digital format.  Yes that can\nbe slightly ambiguous at time, naming is hard, and people do get this wrong\nfrequently.\n\nThe most common problem is to name something in a way that does not scale.\nThe solution to this problem is rather easy, and that is to use a URI to\nname something, which makes it global and scalable.\n\nIn the case of bitcoin you could have use the bitcion URI scheme\n\nbitcion:1fhdjkfhjksf...\n\n\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that\n\u003e developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white\n\u003e paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep\n\u003e Android apps secure.\n\u003e http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951\u0026iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20131102/502938fc/attachment.html\u003e"}