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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 implementation guidance
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 15:06:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP34xJrFnntQqX5o88MyB=+W339kcwvZPojWt2hPF3HJwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502204146.GD62950@giles.gnomon.org.uk>

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>
> e.g. in the UK sole traders (that is, unincorporated businesses) can't
> get EV certs because the UK doesn't maintain a trade register of such
> businesses
>

Sole traders can just trade under their own name, or their email address,
or their domain name, heck even their telephone number if someone sets up
an SMS verifying CA. I don't worry too much about such things - the point
of the cert is just to disambiguate the payment so people can't get
confused into paying the wrong entity.

Companies that can't get EV certs cause us pain indirectly by making users
less certain about what they're expecting to see when they pay a company,
making confusion attacks a bit easier, but I bet it'll be a minor issue in
practice.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 15:39 [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 implementation guidance Mike Hearn
2014-05-02 19:21 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-05-02 20:41 ` Roy Badami
2014-05-04 13:06   ` Mike Hearn [this message]

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