From: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin DNS addresses
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:35:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311644156.29866.4.camel@Desktop666> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1JLts5_r6hHoJR-gS-CuuvS00p=RQ6iYbCyOkBDcvgs1xtew@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:29 -0700, Rick Wesson wrote:
> I've just joined the list with the goals of producing a patch to
> sendtoaddress in rpc.cpp to support DNS lookups so that one could
> publish a TXT record in the DNS with their wallet address to
> facilitate sending of coin.
But...why?
Using URIs is much simpler and can be more useful in terms of being able
to give different addresses and/or values per user.
Also, despite DNSSec being "out there" DNS is still very insecure to
transmit something that will result in money transfer...some idiot tries
it on public WiFi and a MITM steals your coins...DNS is really just not
well suited for this kind of thing.
If you want nice name->address mapping, a simple HTTPS server with
addresses and client support (there are some patches around for this)
works much better in the end.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 0:29 [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin DNS addresses Rick Wesson
2011-07-26 1:35 ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2011-07-26 3:35 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-26 4:22 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-26 4:54 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-26 6:18 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-26 8:04 ` John Smith
2011-07-26 13:23 ` Matt Corallo
[not found] ` <CAJ1JLtvHubiC_f_a17fnXODs54CCdmxPf8+Zz4M5X9d8VEfFSQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <1311691885.23041.2.camel@Desktop666>
[not found] ` <CAJ1JLtsLXEPFkBuHf6ZKUSVYUnY+NL7TtsEswGvdTYtrZZTXWw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-26 16:24 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-26 16:50 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-26 17:18 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-30 11:34 ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-30 13:42 ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-30 14:07 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-26 16:32 phantomcircuit
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