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From: Natanael <natanael.l@gmail.com>
To: vv01f <vv01f@riseup.net>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:49:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAt2M19HNUjr2OET5YjOB9YQKptOtVAmcPXWwoaxPHVTLOMYbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5339418F.1050800@riseup.net>

Does't BIP70 cover this already via Certificate Authorities?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:21 PM, vv01f <vv01f@riseup.net> wrote:
> Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses
> available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind
> of WoT. Right now they sign their own addresses and quote them in the
> forums.
> As I pointed out there already the centralized storage in the forums is
> not secury anyhow and signed messages could be swapped easily with the
> next hack of the forums.
>
> Is that use case taken care of in any plans already?
>
> I thought about abusing pgp keyservers but that would suit for single
> vanity addresses only.
> It seems webfinger could be part of a solution where servers of a
> business can tell and proof you if a specific address is owned by them.
>
> [0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502538
> [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=505095
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31 10:21 [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory vv01f
2014-03-31 10:49 ` Natanael [this message]
2014-03-31 11:14 ` Chris D'Costa
2014-03-31 11:46   ` Natanael
2014-03-31 16:53     ` Chris D'Costa
2014-04-01 11:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-01 12:20     ` Chris D'Costa
2014-04-01 18:16       ` Daryl Banttari
2014-04-01 22:26         ` Chris D'Costa
2014-04-02  0:59           ` Daryl Banttari
2014-04-02  5:16             ` Chris D'Costa
2014-04-02 12:01             ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-31 11:21 ` Peter Todd
2014-03-31 17:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-03-31 18:57   ` Roy Badami
2014-04-01  8:13     ` Chris D'Costa

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