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From: Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:57:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACq0ZD64rZAQs1mWQdwgx1WJq2btAVs3GbegPpkO-Wh49SoGeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRuBwn6HXeZeth+x-R8DAdsVZmYy4nMA3kN+oJaURftgw@mail.gmail.com>

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I'm not convinced that wallet seed interoperability is such a great thing.
There is a wide variability in the quality and security level of wallet
implementations and platforms. Each new device and wallet software a user
types their seed into increases their attack surface and exposure to flaws.
Their security level is reduced to the lowest common denominator. I see the
need for a "fire exit", certainly, but we must also remember that fire
exits are potential entrances for intruders.

Aaron Voisine
co-founder and CEO
breadwallet.com

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Ricardo Filipe
> <ricardojdfilipe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i guess you look at the glass half full :)
> > even though what you say is true, we should aim for wallets not to
> > require those instructions, by standardizing these things in BIPs.
> > let's hope bitcoin doesn't fail in standards as our industries have in
> > the past...
>
> There are genuine principled disagreements on how some things should
> be done. There are genuine differences in functionality.
>
> We cannot expect and should not expect complete compatibility. If you
> must have complete compatibility: use the same software (or maybe not
> even then, considering how poor the forward compatibility of some
> things has been..).
>
> What we can hope to do, and I think the best we can hope to do, is to
> minimize the amount of gratuitous incompatibility and reduce the
> amount of outright flawed constructions (so if there are choices which
> must be made, they're at least choices among relatively good options).
>
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-01 15:23 [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-02  7:09 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-02 15:37 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-02 17:11   ` Jim
2015-03-11 14:58   ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 15:31     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  8:56       ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 17:14     ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 19:04       ` Jim
2015-03-11 19:24         ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-03-11 19:46           ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-11 22:57             ` Aaron Voisine [this message]
2015-03-11 23:22               ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 23:50                 ` devrandom
2015-03-11 23:54                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12  0:11                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12  2:41                     ` devrandom
2015-03-12  4:09                       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12 19:08                         ` Bryan Bishop
2015-03-12 10:30                     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 10:28                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-18  2:06                     ` devrandom
2015-03-12 10:41         ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  3:43       ` slush
2015-03-12 16:47         ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12 17:20           ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 17:42           ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 18:27           ` Natanael
2015-03-12 18:51             ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 19:14               ` Natanael
     [not found] <1353069350.4360497.1426126034565.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
2015-03-12  2:16 ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12  3:59   ` Neill Miller
     [not found] <372541993.4372759.1426123313134.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
2015-03-12  2:26 ` devrandom
2015-03-12  2:38 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 10:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  4:21 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 11:51 ` Neill Miller
2015-03-12 12:59   ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 16:39   ` devrandom
2015-03-12  5:12 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12  5:25 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-03-12  5:58 Thy Shizzle

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