From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 05:54:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201311020554.31403.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131102050144.5850@gmx.com>
On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingrant@gmx.com wrote:
> In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are
> delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In
> brief, the authentication work as follows:
> Server provides a token for the client to sign.
> client passes the signed message and the bitcoin address back to the
> server. server validates the message and honors the alias (optional) and
> bitcoin address as identification. http://forums.bitcoingrant.org/
> Above is a proof of concept forum that utilize this authentication method.
Congratulations! You've reinvented what Eligius and Bitcoin-OTC have been
doing for years! :)
There's no reason to ask the user to provide the address every time, though...
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-02 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-02 5:01 [Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication bitcoingrant
2013-11-02 5:54 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2013-11-02 13:02 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 13:16 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 13:19 ` Hannu Kotipalo
2013-11-02 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 16:26 ` Mike Hearn
2013-11-02 16:52 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 17:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-02 17:16 ` Hannu Kotipalo
2013-11-02 21:14 ` Johnathan Corgan
2013-11-02 21:51 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-11-03 0:29 ` Allen Piscitello
2013-11-03 0:33 ` Luke-Jr
2013-11-03 1:19 ` Allen Piscitello
2013-11-03 1:27 ` Luke-Jr
2013-11-03 1:36 ` Allen Piscitello
2013-11-03 6:23 ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-06 3:38 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-02 21:57 ` slush
2013-11-06 3:01 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-06 6:41 ` slush
2013-12-06 10:44 ` Melvin Carvalho
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