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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2.sk>
To: Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key with optional encryption
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:39:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5320B7F1.8060701@gk2.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44fcb02b-3784-45a6-816a-312c78d940cd@me.com>

On 03/12/2014 08:26 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman wrote:
> So upon entering a password with a typo, the user will not be notified of an 
> error, but be presented with a wallet balance of 0, after the blockchain has 
> been scanned. I'm sorry, but that's not the kind of experience I would want to 
> present to my users.

Sure, you can have either plausible deniability or typo checking, not
both at the same time.

> Would you care to elaborate how optional outsourcing of the KDF breaks 
> compatibility?

I'm afraid one would end up with code generated in one client that is
unusable in a different client, because the client's developer thought
that using fancier algorithm instead of the proposed ones was a good idea.


-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2.sk>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2013-07-19 18:15 ` [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet master seed with optional encryption Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-07-22 13:14   ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-22 14:33     ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-07-22 21:37     ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-11-16  2:47       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-11-16  3:09         ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-12-26 11:48           ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12  3:17             ` [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key " Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 13:11               ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 15:45                 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 15:55                   ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 16:49                     ` Gary Rowe
2014-03-12 18:00                       ` William Yager
2014-03-12 19:35                       ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 19:41                         ` Gary Rowe
2014-03-12 19:26                     ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 19:39                       ` Pavol Rusnak [this message]
2014-03-12 19:55                         ` William Yager
2014-03-12 20:04                           ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:10                             ` William Yager
2014-03-12 20:24                               ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:37                                 ` William Yager
2014-03-12 20:42                                   ` Pavol Rusnak
2014-03-12 20:49                                     ` William Yager
2014-03-12 21:08                                 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-12 21:15                                   ` William Yager
2014-04-22  0:05 William Yager
2014-04-24 19:39 ` William Yager

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