Re: [Bitcoin-development] 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-03-16 Thread Jorge Timón
Some comments. On 3/16/14, Adam Back wrote: > 6. a fraud proof is an SPV proof with a longer chain showing that the proof > of burn was orphaned. As discussed, "reorg proof" it's a more appropriate term since the reorg can happen without any fraud. It also prevents the term from being confused w

[Bitcoin-development] 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-03-16 Thread Adam Back
So an update on 1-way pegging (aka bitcoin staging, explained in quoted text at bottom): it turns out secure 2-way pegging is also possible (with some bitcoin change to help support it). The interesting thing is this allows interoperability in terms of being able to move bitcoin into and out of a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 1.9.8 release

2014-03-16 Thread Thomas Voegtlin
Thanks again for having a look. Given these problems, I have decided to remove the encryption methods from the current release. I retagged 1.9.8 and updated the packages. Thomas Le 16/03/2014 15:39, Gregory Maxwell a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote: >> thanks

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 1.9.8 release

2014-03-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote: > thanks for your feedback! > > I was not aware that that implementation was flawed. > I will see how I can fix that code and get back to you. It also leaks on the order of 7 bits of data about the message per message chunk. I'm also think

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 1.9.8 release

2014-03-16 Thread Thomas Voegtlin
thanks for your feedback! I was not aware that that implementation was flawed. I will see how I can fix that code and get back to you. Thomas Le 16/03/2014 14:54, Gregory Maxwell a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote: >> The encryption algorithm is ECIES, and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 1.9.8 release

2014-03-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote: >The encryption algorithm is ECIES, and code was was borrowed from >https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq. In order to know the public >key corresponding to a Bitcoin address in your wallet, you can use >the 'getpubkeys' comman

[Bitcoin-development] mailing list to get news ONLY about new releases

2014-03-16 Thread spameden
Hi everyone. Is there a mailing list where I can get only notifications about NEW releases of bitcoin-qt client? So far I've found only RSS subscription here: https://bitcoin.org/en/rss/releases.rss RSS is not convinient at all for me.. Many thanks. -

[Bitcoin-development] Electrum 1.9.8 release

2014-03-16 Thread Thomas Voegtlin
I am happy to announce the release of Electrum 1.9.8. This release includes some features initially planned for version 2.0. Packages are available on https://electrum.org/download.html (signed by me) Binaries for windows and mac will be available in the coming days enjoy Thomas

Re: [Bitcoin-development] External IP Address

2014-03-16 Thread Wladimir
Sam, On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Sam Michaels wrote: > You can look for X-Client-Update to see if the check in was logged. Other > information can be passed in the header, too. > > Errors are trapped so that it will always display the IP address and any > error information is contained in

[Bitcoin-development] External IP Address

2014-03-16 Thread Sam Michaels
Hello devs. I was poking around in the code for a small project and I came across the function GetMyExternalIP() in net.cpp. The comment says you'd like to phase out the current method. I threw together exactly what was asked in the comments: it's a site that has PHP echo the IP address. Additi