Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-11-16 Thread Mike Hearn
BTW have you checked the code? I took a quick look and didn't see things I was expecting to see. In particular I couldn't find any code that manages wallet state in the presence of re-orgs. It appears to check that transactions appeared in the block chain, but if there's a chain switch it's not

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-11-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm concerned about how the particular security model of electrum is being described; or rather— not being described. Just to close the loop on this: I finally got in touch with Thomas on IRC and walked over the security

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
+gary Electrum also has a daemon for merchants. Well, I suggest taking it up with Thomas directly. A thread here won't do much. Considering the dislike of Java that exist reflexively in much of the non-java community and the greater ease of deployment and the integration of type-2 split key