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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment protocol for onion URLs.
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:15:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131026041551.GA15932@savin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRRobkE2GdYomtJof7HCH-9ZczE9EBj7DBS-pCGscUSNQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:31:05PM -0700, 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.
> 
> If we specified in the payment protocol an additional validation
> procedure for [base32].onion hosts that just has it hash and base32
> encode the pubkey (as tor does) then the payment protocol could work
> seamlessly with tor hosts. (Displaying that the payment request came
> from "foooo.onion").  I believe that the additional code for this
> would be trivial (and I'll write it if there is support for making
> this a standard feature).
> 
> This would give us an fully supported option which is completely CA
> free... it would only work for tor sites, but the people concerned
> about CA trechery are likely to want to use tor in any case.
> 
> Thoughts?

Strong ACK on the basis of responding for forum trolls alone.

It's easy enough to make it a genuinely useful tool for multisig wallets
too: keep a copy of your Tor URL bookmarks on your second signing
computer. So long as either computer has the correct URL you're safe.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  4:16 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
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 [this message]
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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