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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:14:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0NZykzrvC1=YZv4czbu+EPaR3qpjQ2WZDsA8DhroR2_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201211271703.39282.andyparkins@gmail.com>

> Personally, I'd like to see fewer implicit ties to X509.  With X509 as one
> option.

That's pretty much what we have today - in future other schemes can be
proposed as extensions. Protocol buffers are easily extended, they
ignore unknown fields. Then you'd wait and see what the invoice
request looked like and produce an invoice with the right security
bits.

> In particular two additional identification types:
>
>  - GnuPG (obviously)

It's not obvious to me, incidentally. The web of trust has been
dead-on-arrival since it was first proposed, and for good reasons.
SSL/X.509, for better or worse, has significant usage.

Your case of a small business is a perfect example of people who won't
be using GPG. If they don't want to buy an SSL cert, they can just as
well put a reference number in the memo field or a "Hey Bob, here is
the bill we discussed". The payer does not get the multi-factor auth
protection so if their computer has a virus, they may be hosed. But
that's good incentive for sellers to get verified. Some CA authorities
do it for free these days.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26 22:37 [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts Gavin Andresen
2012-11-26 23:02 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:13   ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:16     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:19       ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:27         ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:32         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-26 23:44           ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:16             ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  0:26               ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:45                 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  1:09                   ` Gavin
2012-11-27  8:44                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:44               ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:38 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-11-27  0:02   ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  0:31     ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:37       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  2:16 ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  2:47   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  3:16     ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:29       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  3:31         ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:54           ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  4:17             ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  8:43               ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 10:23                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 10:42                   ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 11:36                     ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-27 11:46                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 12:03                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 12:39                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 14:05                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-27 14:26                           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 13:55                           ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27 17:03 ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 17:14   ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-11-27 17:26     ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 18:16       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 21:39         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 10:43           ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-28 12:57             ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 14:09               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28  8:33 ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 23:36 ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29  0:30   ` Watson Ladd
2012-11-29  8:16     ` slush
2012-11-29 16:11   ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-29 17:07     ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29 17:30       ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-29 17:31       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-29 18:53         ` Roy Badami
2012-12-01 19:25           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 19:35             ` Mike Koss
2012-12-03 20:59               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 21:28               ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-03 22:26                 ` Roy Badami
2012-12-03 22:34                   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-03 22:48                     ` Roy Badami
2012-12-16 21:15               ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  2:18                 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-17  8:24                   ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  9:19                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-17  9:31                       ` Gary Rowe
2012-12-17 11:23                       ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17 17:57                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-20 16:53                           ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-20 17:43                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-20 19:32                               ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-21 17:05                                 ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-24  0:38                                   ` Elden Tyrell
2012-12-04 17:06             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-05 19:34               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06  6:31                 ` Andreas Petersson
2012-12-06  8:53                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 16:56                     ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06 17:55                       ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 19:13                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 10:45                           ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 11:01                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 16:19                               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 16:27                                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 18:13                       ` Alan Reiner
     [not found]                       ` <CALf2ePx5jS@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-17 19:28                         ` Vezalke
2012-12-03 21:42         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-23  2:33 ` Mark Friedenbach

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