Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-03-25 Thread Roy Badami
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:10:53PM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Roy Badami wrote: > > I'm not envisaging something as drastic as changing the rules to make > > transactions to revoked addresses invalid - just an overlay protocol. > > Although to be useful such a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-03-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Roy Badami wrote: > I'm not envisaging something as drastic as changing the rules to make > transactions to revoked addresses invalid - just an overlay protocol. > Although to be useful such a protocol would have to be pretty much > universally implemented by clien

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-03-25 Thread Roy Badami
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:08:51PM +, I wrote: > What would be really nice is for bitcoin to have a big key compromise > button, which would automatically transfer all coins to newly > generated addresses (optionally with a pause between generation and > transaction - to allow for a new wallet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Vessenes
We've been toying with the idea of a 'dead' button, one that issues a bunch of pre-generated txs sending stuff out to a previously secured 'backup' set of addresses (we don't think in terms of wallets, just keypairs). In this scenario, you have a long-term storage address (or set of them), and if

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-02-25 Thread Jorge Timón
Just create a new wallet and send everything to a new address. I don't think additional tools for this are needed. On 2/23/13, Roy Badami wrote: > Has anyone been thinking about providing tools to allow users to cope > with key compromise - or more generally, to manage key retirement etc? > > at

[Bitcoin-development] Key retirement and key compromise

2013-02-22 Thread Roy Badami
Has anyone been thinking about providing tools to allow users to cope with key compromise - or more generally, to manage key retirement etc? atm, if you suspect that your keys may be liable to compromise then what would you have to do? You'd have to create a new wallet (on a new computer? or is