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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



  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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