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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin DNS addresses
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:22:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107260022.24961.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1JLts9vcF7bGo8udK9OicWhAUHvmeFDrZQDKBoGQbp-nYGrw@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:35:34 PM Rick Wesson wrote:
> I started from the premise that I can't remember a bitcoin address but
> I can/do remember email addresses which, as an identity are easy
> labels for humans to remember. The IPv4 address is the metaphor I
> consider. As someone who actually worked on parts of DNSSEC I do
> believe in it -- and that it offers reasonable security for
> transactions.

1. Right now you practically need a unique Bitcoin address per transaction.
2. DNSSEC is on the edge of becoming illegal in the US.
3. Emails aren't merely domains.

I would propose something like resolving foo@bar.net to a SRV lookup for 
_bitcoinaddressresolution._tcp.foo.bar.net, expecting a cert for bar.net, 
making a HTTPS request for /bitcoinaddressresolution?foo@bar.net, and also 
sending an email to foo@bar.net (the usual way) signed with the keys used for 
the transaction. ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26  4:23 UTC|newest]

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
2011-07-26  3:35   ` Rick Wesson
2011-07-26  4:22     ` Luke-Jr [this message]
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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