On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Encrypting links in a network without identity doesn't really seem to help > enough for the costs to be justified.
Passive is still better than none. > I would like to see a PGP-like "web of trust" proposal for both the > security of the bitcoin network itself /and/ (eventually) of things like > transmission of bitcoin addresses. There already exists an unutilised WoT of "good" actors within the network - miners via the coinbase transaction. Bootstrapping their own "trusted" pool of IP addresses would be possible via the 100 bytes coinbase script. > *Then* you can slap an encryption layer on top of it. Once you have > identity & P2P verified pub keys for nodes, encryption becomes easy. A miner's WoT will give you this. Alfie -- Alfie John https://www.alfie.wtf _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
