From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RaEQZ-0001Iy-DY for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:55 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([173.242.112.54]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1RaEQY-0001hr-Ge for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:55 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (fl-184-4-160-40.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [184.4.160.40]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A5CA560010; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:48 +0000 (UTC) From: "Luke-Jr" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net, Amir Taaki Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:32:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.4-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1323728469.78044.YahooMailNeo@web121012.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1323728469.78044.YahooMailNeo@web121012.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: CE5A D56A 36CC 69FA E7D2 3558 665F C11D D53E 9583 X-PGP-Key-ID: 665FC11DD53E9583 X-PGP-Keyserver: x-hkp://subkeys.pgp.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112121732.43072.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -2.3 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 0.4 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1RaEQY-0001hr-Ge Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:55 -0000 FirstBits looks nice at glance, but is bound to create a gold-rush to grab every nice-looking FirstBits address. HTTPS is only as secure as the (centralized) CAs, thus not really any better than TXT records. I don't think an address of some form is avoidable.