Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-16 Thread Jan Møller
see lots of strange nodes and suspicious patterns. You can be certain that we were not the only ones connected to many nodes. My takeaway from this: If nodes that do not relay transactions is a problem then there is stuff to fix. /Jan On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-25 Thread Jan Vornberger
ing bitpay at all if you > are already going through the effort to remove a signature and > change the memo field? For their tie-in with the traditional banking system, i.e. cash-out in fiat. Here in Germany that might currently be the only feasible way of accepting bitcoins commercially, bec

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-23 Thread Jan Vornberger
com/schildbach/bitcoin-wallet/blob/master/wallet/src/de/schildbach/wallet/offline/DirectPaymentTask.java#L238 The latter should probably be at least changed to the reverse check as for HTTP, but in general some non-memo way of doing that would be nice of course. Jan --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-23 Thread Jan Vornberger
fine with doing changes here - I don't think there is all that much stuff out there yet which would break from it. At the moment I'm also modifying BitPay's memo field to contain 'ack', as Andreas' wallet otherwise reports a failure if I transmit the original via B

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-02-22 Thread Jan Vornberger
to 'repeated string payment_url' or would you rather introduce a new field 'additional_payment_urls'? 2) @Andreas: Is the r, r1, r2 mechanism already implemented in Bitcoin Wallet? 3) Are there other comments regarding 'h' parameter as per TBIP75? 4) General commen

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-05-12 Thread Jan Møller
; > - the only hash function in use is SHA-256, which is the all-purpose > hash function in the Bitcoin protocol; > - double SHA is used for similarity with Bitcoin, although Jan and I > believe single SHA is enough in this application; > - bias-less encoding of M and x, because

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double-spending unconfirmed transactions is a lot easier than most people realise

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
>Of course, this is an especially difficult case, as you must send the >double-spend after the original transaction - normally just sending a >non-standard tx to Eligius first would suffice. Note how this defeats >Andresen's double-spend-relay patch(3) as proposed since the >double-spend is a non-s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
Treating testnet differently is quite the norm, we have that in BIP 32, 38, 70, SIPA private keys (no BIP for that I guess), bitcoin addresses etc. At the same time none of them define values for alt coins as far as I recall. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Tamas Blummer wrote: > I use several

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Jan Møller wrote: > > This is a very useful BIP, and I am very much looking forward to > > implementing it in Mycelium, in particular for bip32 wallets. > > I haven't seen commentary from you on the Kogelman draft, it would be > helpful there:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
I am concerned about space, but more about usability :-) I'll definitely use both M and the checksum. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:39 am, Jan Møller wrote: > > Necessary Shares = M+1, not a problem > > > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
Necessary Shares = M+1, not a problem I would probably encode N-of-M in 1 byte as I don't see good use cases with more than 17 shares. Anyway, I am fine with it as it is. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 10:27 am, Jan Møll

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
> > > > - Please allow M=1. From a usability point of view it makes sense to > allow > > the user to select 1 share if that is what he wants. > > How does that make sense? Decomposing a key/seed into 1 share is > functionally equivalent to dispensing with the secret sharing scheme > entirely. > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-22 Thread Jan Møller
trong opinions of whether to use GF(2^8) over Shamir's Secret Sharing, but the simplicity of GF(2^8) is appealing. - Jan On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Nikita Schmidt < nik...@megiontechnologies.com> wrote: > > What do you think a big-integer division by a word-sized divisor *is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for seamless website authentication using Bitcoin address

2014-04-21 Thread Jan Møller
can be used for generating a parallel hierarchy for authentication purposes. - Jan -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Instant / contactless payments

2014-03-08 Thread Jan Vornberger
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 02:39:52PM +, Alex Kotenko wrote: > Not sure if you've seen it, but here is how we do NFC right now > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOMIG9JUY8 with XBTerminal. Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Are the two devices on the same wifi network in the demo? In my experi

[Bitcoin-development] Popularity based mining (variable block reward)

2013-12-10 Thread Jan Kučera
reward value so that the system would not collapse. I may be completely wrong with my idea but am asking it this was spoken before and what opinions do developers have. Regards, Jan -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before

[Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-10-18 Thread jan
The words 'public', 'private' and 'secret' could be confusing when encoding public and private keys. eg. a private key that begins with the word 'public'. I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the let

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction

2011-10-27 Thread Jan Vornberger
d slowing down listtransactions or gettransaction, I put it in a separate RPC call 'getorigins'. This is the patch: https://github.com/javgh/bitcoin/compare/bfa4600a93...getorigins Any obvious mistakes I made there? Regards! Jan --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction

2011-10-27 Thread Jan Vornberger
ic source (or the Bitcoin daemon could keep track of that as well, either way is fine). This sounds a little too involved though, for my level of familiarity with the Bitcoin source code and C++, to implement myself. Regards, Jan ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction

2011-10-27 Thread Jan Vornberger
Standard() also checks that the size of scriptSig is not above 200. Adding an extra signature there triggers this limit. I guess there is no way around that? Regards, Jan -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction

2011-10-25 Thread Jan Vornberger
ntroversial at this point to get them included in mainline. Criticism ranging from 'unnecessary, as 0-confirmation transactions are fairly safe today' to 'encourages too much centralization and therefore evil'. So how to people on th

[Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction

2011-10-24 Thread Jan Vornberger
tion in a different way? if so, how? Regards! Jan -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learn