-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/14/2013 02:25 AM, Peter Todd wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 01:21:21AM -0400, Alan Reiner wrote: >> If we're going to extend/expand message signing, can we please add a >> proper ASCII-armored format for it? Really, anything that encodes the >> signed message next to the signature, so that there's no ambiguities >> about what was signed. You can keep the "bare signatures" as an option >> for backwards compatiblity, but offer this as the primary one. >> >> What we really want is to have the user copy an ASCII-armored block of >> text into the client (or we could have a URI-extension for this), and >> the app pops up with a window that says "The following message has a >> valid signature from address 1XKjf32kJbf...: <message>". > > I already looked into ASCII-armoring PGP style for a different project. > (timestamping) Basically you'd want to follow RFC2440, section 7 > "Cleartext signature framework": > > -----BEGIN BTC SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hello world! > -----BEGIN BTC SIGNATURE----- > IKBeCbxXHvD1TJh8ZlMySo26w5z6YZQD1xqKgbhsvlhEgcFD+kvKx4LzUz1yxg/8 > IdYdBnzez77VDq3odHrVftg= > -----END BTC SIGNATURE----- > > Pretty simple really and doesn't need to be done prior to other > signmessage changes. There may be an issue passing \r's through the RPC > interface; the RFC specifies CRLF line endings. > Perfect. That was the spec I was looking for but too lazy to find it. I guess I'll lead by example and just do it in Armory. I'll let users pressure the other devs to follow :)
- -Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFq9GIACgkQYdHIW5RKKv1A2gCeMfdttPylmPqPqemo0Q2uACEt eAcAn21a7sYy+TNIinRR3SlVgm4VbJPh =qGlo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
