rich1.0npub1dtr22xd42nv07un2xq0rmtkqkjylgsmexau0anxxafa9xmmn2ncshu7wrshttps://nostr.ae/npub1dtr22xd42nv07un2xq0rmtkqkjylgsmexau0anxxafa9xmmn2ncshu7wrsnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2013-11-02 📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingrant at gmx.com wrote: > In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are > delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In > brief, the authentication work as follows: > Server provides a token for the client to sign. > client passes the signed message and the bitcoin address back to the > server. server validates the message and honors the alias (optional) and > bitcoin address as identification. http://forums.bitcoingrant.org/ > Above is a proof of concept forum that utilize this authentication method. Congratulations! You've reinvented what Eligius and Bitcoin-OTC have been doing for years! :) There's no reason to ask the user to provide the address every time, though... Luke