[Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication

[Allen Piscitello]

This was one of my concerns when implementing a scheme where you sign a
refund transaction before the original transaction is broadcast.  I
originally tried to pass a hash and have the server sign it.  However, I
had no way to know that what I was signing wasn't a transaction that was
spending my coins!  So I changed the code to require sending the full
transaction, not just the hash.  The other way to mitigate this is through
not having any unspent outputs from this key.

For authentication, you could have both a user-generated and
server-generated portion, so that you signed something that clearly had
data from you, so even if the server-data was a hash of $EVIL_DOCUMENT, you
have clear plausible deniability in that your data that is also signed is
"ATTEMPTING LOGIN TO XYZ.COM Hash($EVIL_DOCUMENT)".


On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Or SIGHASH of a transaction spending those coins or updating the SIN...
>
> On 11/2/13 2:14 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote:> On 11/01/2013 10:01 PM,
> bitcoingrant at gmx.com wrote:
> >
> >> Server provides a token for the client to sign.
> >
> > Anyone else concerned about signing an arbitrary string?  Could be
> > a hash of $EVIL_DOCUMENT, no?  I'd want to XOR the string with my
> > own randomly generated nonce, sign that, then pass the nonce and
> > the signature back to the server for verification.
> >
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