Re: [Bitcoin-development] idea

2013-11-10 Thread Wladimir
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: maybe add an optional note field to transaction so the receiver knows who sent the btc This has been discussed many times. But in any case: If you encounter this as a problem it means you are re-using addresses, which

Re: [Bitcoin-development] idea

2013-11-09 Thread Luke-Jr
On Saturday, November 09, 2013 8:16:07 PM Chris Evans wrote: maybe add an optional note field to transaction so the receiver knows who sent the btc This mailing list is for development discussion, NOT bug reports nor feature requests. Bitcoin does not currently support any built-in mechanism

[Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
This is just me making notes for myself, I'm not seriously suggesting this be implemented any time soon. Mozilla Persona is an infrastructure for web based single sign on. It works by having email providers sign temporary certificates for their users, whose browsers then sign server-provided

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based SSO implementations as discussed by John Light and others. One of our long-term ambitions with Hive is to provide a (mostly) user-transparent, decentralized authentication

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 14:08, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Bitcoin sought to reduce dependence on trusted third parties, where as, persona is increasing the reach of trusted third parties. The keys and passwords are stored on mozilla's servers, sometimes on your email providers. Persona, is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 13:59, Wendell w...@grabhive.com wrote: We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based SSO implementations as discussed by John Light and others. I've been using SSO for years using an X.509 private