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From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:52:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140320215208.GC88006@giles.gnomon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3szn=oQS+ZuqSzjUoSAjtkyPxPWJFaU1vDW43dRNVeNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:

> Yes, this overlaps somewhat with the PKI signing in BIP70, but not
> entirely - you might want to serve unsigned payment requests, but
> still have confidentiality and authenticity for a local face to face
> transaction. The signing and encryption does different things

I'm not sure if this what you're getting at, but in a common
face-to-face scenario, it really doesn't overlap so much (in that the
PKI in BIP70 isn't really helpful).

It's not unusual, in a face-to-face transaction at a bricks-and-mortar
establishment, that you know neither the legal name of the entity
running the establishment, nor any electronic identifier (domain name,
email address) that might be presented to you in an X.509 certificate,
even if such a certificate is presented in the PaymentRequest.

In many cases I want/need to simply be assured that I am paying "the
person/organisation which operates that machine behind the counter,
right there".

In many ways I'll miss the simplicity of BIP21 QR codes for
face-to-face transactions - because in this use case the payment
protocol complicates (and in many cases weakens) the assurance that
you really are paying the entity that prepared the QR code.

roy



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 11:59 [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 13:11 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 18:18   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 18:34     ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 20:53     ` [Bitcoin-development] Experiment with linking payment requests via href Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 21:47       ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 17:11 ` [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol for Face-to-face Payments Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-27 17:39   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 18:18     ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-27 20:34   ` Roy Badami
2014-01-29 14:57     ` Christophe Biocca
2014-01-30 10:46 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-30 10:50   ` Mike Hearn
2014-02-07 23:15   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-02  9:47 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-02 11:50   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20  2:22     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20  3:31       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-20  8:09         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20 10:36           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 12:12             ` Adam Back
2014-03-20 12:20               ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 17:31               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-20 17:42                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 18:01                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-21 10:28                 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 13:59                   ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-22 16:35                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-22 16:45                       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-22 16:55                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-03-22 17:24                         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-22 17:30                           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-23  3:47                             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 10:25               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 10:59                 ` Adam Back
2014-03-21 11:08                   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-21 11:33                     ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-21 12:25                       ` Adam Back
2014-03-21 13:07                         ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 18:20             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 18:31               ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-20 18:50                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-20 21:52                 ` Roy Badami [this message]
2014-03-20 23:02                   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-26 22:48                     ` Roy Badami
2014-03-26 22:56                       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-26 23:20                         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-27 10:08                           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-27 13:31                             ` vv01f
2014-06-30 19:26                               ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01  8:18                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-01  9:48                                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 10:42                                     ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-01 13:03                                       ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01 14:59                                         ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 15:07                                           ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-01 15:39                                             ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-07-01 17:18                                               ` Alex Kotenko
2014-07-01 17:59                                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-02  8:49                                                   ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 10:43                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20  8:08       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-20 16:14         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21  9:47           ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 13:54             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 14:51               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 15:38                 ` Alex Kotenko
2014-03-21 15:20               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-21 15:24                 ` Mike Hearn

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