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From: Natanael <natanael.l@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:49:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] secure assigned bitcoin address directory
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Does't BIP70 cover this already via Certificate Authorities?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:21 PM, vv01f <vv01f@riseup.net> wrote:
> Some users on bitcointalk[0] would like to have their vanity addresses
> available for others easily to find and verify the ownership over a kind
> of WoT. Right now they sign their own addresses and quote them in the
> forums.
> As I pointed out there already the centralized storage in the forums is
> not secury anyhow and signed messages could be swapped easily with the
> next hack of the forums.
>
> Is that use case taken care of in any plans already?
>
> I thought about abusing pgp keyservers but that would suit for single
> vanity addresses only.
> It seems webfinger could be part of a solution where servers of a
> business can tell and proof you if a specific address is owned by them.
>
> [0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502538
> [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=505095
>
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