Rick Wesson [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-16 🗒️ Summary of this message: Rick Wesson ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-12-16
🗒️ Summary of this message: Rick Wesson suggests that hardening protocols and usability are related, and recommends looking at IETF's work and the elegance of Bitcoin protocols. He argues that aliases are not as secure as HTTPS secured URI+Bitcoin address pairs.
📝 Original message:On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:03:28AM -0800, Rick Wesson wrote:
>> Hardening the protocols and usability are related. Please look at some
>> of the work done in the IETF which has a long history in addressing
>> many of the issues you are considering. Review some of the elegance in
>> the bitcoin protocols. The proposals in this thread are neither clear
>> nor elegant. If you can't reach nearly the same level of
>> sophistication then I suggest you rethink your scheme.
>
> That's why you use URI + bitcoin address pairs, and use SSL communication
> authenticated using the respective bitcoin pubkey. They may spoof your DNS
> server, they can't fake having the requested corresponding private key.

You are making my point (again) regarding usability and security.
Aliases are not a https secured URI+bitcoin address.

-rick