[Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases
Luke-Jr
luke at dashjr.org
Mon Dec 19 16:35:32 UTC 2011
On Monday, December 19, 2011 6:44:59 AM Andy Parkins wrote:
> Perhaps we should be more strict about which CA certificates are trusted by
> the bitcoin client: say restrict it to those who have demonstrably good
> practices for verifying identity; rather than the ridiculous amount of
> trust that comes pre-installed for me in my browser.
Accepted CAs is/should be a property of your *operating system*, not any
particular software. Anyhow, restricting this further just makes it even more
unusable. Already there is only 1 or 2 CAs that will provide a gratis
certificate for personal/small users. If you only allow high-class CAs, I
imagine that will restrict "no key in the URI" aliases to those who will fork
over a lot of money.
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