Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-06-28 📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2016-06-28
📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> An "out of band key check" is not part of BIP151.
It has a session ID for this purpose.
> It requires a secure channel and is authentication. So BIP151 doesn't provide the tools to detect an attack, that requires authentication. A general requirement for authentication is the issue I have raised.
One might wonder how you ever use a Bitcoin address, or even why we
might guess these emails from "you" aren't actually coming from the
NSA.
📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> An "out of band key check" is not part of BIP151.
It has a session ID for this purpose.
> It requires a secure channel and is authentication. So BIP151 doesn't provide the tools to detect an attack, that requires authentication. A general requirement for authentication is the issue I have raised.
One might wonder how you ever use a Bitcoin address, or even why we
might guess these emails from "you" aren't actually coming from the
NSA.