Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-11-02 📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 02, ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-11-02
📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingrant at gmx.com wrote:
> In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are
> delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In
> brief, the authentication work as follows:
> Server provides a token for the client to sign.
> client passes the signed message and the bitcoin address back to the
> server. server validates the message and honors the alias (optional) and
> bitcoin address as identification. http://forums.bitcoingrant.org/
> Above is a proof of concept forum that utilize this authentication method.
Congratulations! You've reinvented what Eligius and Bitcoin-OTC have been
doing for years! :)
There's no reason to ask the user to provide the address every time, though...
Luke
📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingrant at gmx.com wrote:
> In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are
> delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In
> brief, the authentication work as follows:
> Server provides a token for the client to sign.
> client passes the signed message and the bitcoin address back to the
> server. server validates the message and honors the alias (optional) and
> bitcoin address as identification. http://forums.bitcoingrant.org/
> Above is a proof of concept forum that utilize this authentication method.
Congratulations! You've reinvented what Eligius and Bitcoin-OTC have been
doing for years! :)
There's no reason to ask the user to provide the address every time, though...
Luke