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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Mark van Cuijk <mark@coinqy.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] "On behalf of" BIP 70 extension proposal
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:46:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3pU__65h3VFEshtHuXE-aXWkRR47QPXXMNmBrBNcb=SQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9BF4A1A-5363-4725-8CFC-9EFE0C0B6B15@coinqy.com>

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Mark van Cuijk <mark@coinqy.com> wrote:

> Good to see that it has been discussed, but I see the idea has been
> postponed.
>

I'm not sure postponed is the right word. It wasn't in v1, but many useful
things weren't. It's more like, a bunch of people have to do work to
upgrade this and at the moment they're all busy with other things.


> I do like the idea coined by Mike that a PP can issue non-SSL certificates
> for the purpose of merchant identification, as long as a customer is free
> to determine whether he trusts the PP for this purpose.
>

I don't think I proposed this exactly? It's the other way around - a
merchant issues an extension cert to allow the PP to act on their behalf.


> Regarding the choice of how to authenticate the PP, I’m a bit
> undetermined. Disregarding backward compatibility, I think the extended
> certificate system proposed by Mike is cleaner. However, I don’t like the
> concept of requiring two separate signatures for old and new clients.
> Taking backward compatibility in mind, I tend to prefer my proposal.
>

I'm not sure I understand. Your proposal also has two signatures. Indeed it
must because delegation of authority requires a signature, but old clients
won't understand it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-27  6:55 [Bitcoin-development] "On behalf of" BIP 70 extension proposal Mark van Cuijk
2014-07-27 19:31 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-28  9:01   ` Mark van Cuijk
2014-07-28 12:46     ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-07-28 13:06       ` Mark van Cuijk
2014-07-28 13:32         ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-30  7:54           ` Mark van Cuijk
2014-07-30 11:34             ` Mike Hearn

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