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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 03:41:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310260341.41613.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRRobkE2GdYomtJof7HCH-9ZczE9EBj7DBS-pCGscUSNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday, October 26, 2013 3:31:05 AM Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> One limitation of the payment protocol as speced is that there is no
> way for a hidden service site to make use of its full authentication
> capability because they are unable to get SSL certificates issued to
> them.
> 
> A tor hidden service (onion site) is controlled by an RSA key.
> 
> It would be trivial to pack a tor HS pubkey into a self-signed x509
> certificate with the cn set to foooo.onion.
> ...
> Thoughts?

Is there any point to additional encryption over tor (which afaik is already 
encrypted end-to-end)? Is there a safe way to make this work through tor entry 
nodes/gateways?

It'd be nice to have a way to support namecoin-provided keys too...

Luke



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-26  3:31 [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-26  3:41 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2013-10-26  4:06   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-28 12:14     ` Adam Back
2013-10-28 13:21       ` Mike Hearn
2013-10-26  3:55 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-10-26  4:15 ` Peter Todd
2013-10-28  5:58 ` John Dillon
2013-10-28 19:37   ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-10-31  0:44     ` Peter Todd

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