Re: [Bitcoin-development] Sending Bitcoins using RSA keys

2013-04-27 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 24 April 2013 16:46, Craig B Agricola wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but what benefit does this dance give > over > the slightly more obvious mechanism of simply: > 1) Alice generates a new address with her bitcoin client and sends the BTC > to >this new address > 2) Alice e

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Sending Bitcoins using RSA keys

2013-04-24 Thread Craig B Agricola
Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but what benefit does this dance give over the slightly more obvious mechanism of simply: 1) Alice generates a new address with her bitcoin client and sends the BTC to this new address 2) Alice exports the private key for that address (there is a well support

[Bitcoin-development] Sending Bitcoins using RSA keys

2013-04-24 Thread Melvin Carvalho
So there's a slight world divide in digital payments with bitcoin using ECDSA and GPG, payswarm / webid etc using largely RSA Here's how to bring the two worlds together and enable bitcoins be sent over webid or payswarm Problem: Alice and Bob have RSA key pairs, but no public bitcoin addresses.