rich1.0npub1ad7209g90jnu400x74quws0xv8gpxs2fxnjexnpwqnrxwa39exdq5gl2p6https://nostr.ae/npub1ad7209g90jnu400x74quws0xv8gpxs2fxnjexnpwqnrxwa39exdq5gl2p6njumphttps://nostr.ae๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2011-12-18 ๐Ÿ—’๏ธ Summary of this message: A discussion on the authentication of hosts and the need for a proper protocol to negotiate payment in Bitcoin development. ๐Ÿ“ Original message:Maybe I'm retarded, but where's the point in providing alliases containing yet another hash in URL? slush On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote: > On Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:05:11 PM Jorge Timรณn wrote: > > If we chose the simple URI proposal namecoin can still be integrated > > to map the IP of the server by those who want to. > > Does it removes the necessity of the certificates? > > If so, we should let people decide between HTTP, HTTPS, namecoin or > > whatever they trust. > > How are you going to authenticate the host? Certificates from CAs are how > HTTPS does it. HTTP is vulnerable. If the URI contains an address (eg, > bitcoin://remotehost/base58key), the remote host could sign its > (self-signed) > SSL key with the ECDSA key to prove authenticity. DNSSEC/namecoin > presumably > has some way to do this as well. > > > Shouldn't we be also discussing the valid format of the answered > > message? I mean fields like "amount", "concept" and such. > > At some point, a proper protocol to negotiate payment is needed for > anything > like this. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 > Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for > developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it > provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. > Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20111219/b86751c7/attachment.html>