Published on: 2014-05-06T08:22:15+00:00
In an email conversation, Odinn Cyberguerrilla discusses the progress of two-factor authentication and bitcoin with the Bitcoin developers Andreas Schildbach and Jeff Garzik. They are working on a decentralized authentication protocol based on bitcoin-like addresses. BitPay is also developing a new standard for authentication and hopes to establish a complete, decentralized authentication protocol with community support. Progress can be followed on their Github page. Odinn also asks about progress on a fully decentralized way of residing on one's device or devices and mentions maidsafe, a decentralized internet platform.Ryan X. Charles suggests that BitPay implement merge avoidance to increase customer and merchant privacy in the payment protocol. He also expresses concerns about X.509 encryption certificates and proposes a new standard for authentication based on bitcoin-like addresses. In another email, Ryan expresses concern about the missing concept of payment status after it has been made and suggests adding a message to return the merchant's view of the transaction status. He also recommends requiring UTC for times in the payment protocol to avoid confusion. Gavin Andresen and Andreas Schildbach provide feedback and suggest changes to BIP70.The email thread also includes discussions about X.509 certificates, the length of Bitcoin URIs, and the possibility of having a UNIX UTC timestamp field in customer payment messages. The conversation covers various technical aspects and potential improvements to the payment protocol.
Updated on: 2023-08-01T07:40:05.028127+00:00