Comment Re:"everyone from PayPal merchants to Rand Paul" (Score 1) 67
For the few equity traders that buy Bitcoin that it is rare and that the Bitcoin economy is going to grow is enough. They just buy some Bitcoin and hold on to it.
For the few equity traders that buy Bitcoin that it is rare and that the Bitcoin economy is going to grow is enough. They just buy some Bitcoin and hold on to it.
I believe I've seen Bitcoin Multi-Signature wallets use Shamir's algorithm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A Bitcoin 'wallet' is the private key which allows you to spend your the Bitcoin you own.
A Multi-Signature wallet is a wallet for which you need 2 out of 3 keys to spend the Bitcoin.
How something like that could be used in a secure system in this case I'm not so sure about.
Have to admit I'm not a big fan of incremental improvements over an old less secure system, but they do improve things and fix things and it's stuff that actually can be deployed on the public Internet.
Examples are better revocation that actually works:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Im...
https://blog.mozilla.org/secur...
Making sure regular visitors on sites always use HTTPS and only allow for certain public keys (the last one fixed the CA system for regular visitors !):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Maybe later we'll also see DNSSEC/DANE to fix the first time visit on a site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
"people also like to possess it because it is rare"
That is what Bitcoin also garantees, it's rare.
You can precisely known how many Bitcoins there were, are or will be at a certain time.
The technical people are actually working on this problem:
1. make it super easy to encrypt all websites:
https://letsencrypt.org/
2. In the long run:
"Marking HTTP As Non-Secure"
https://www.chromium.org/Home/...
And many, many more improvements.
Steve Ballmer was talking about the GPL.
With open source they mean an open source license.
I really doubt they are talking about a free software license the GPL.
The reasons might end up being less important than the actions.
Here is the official announcement:
Here is a link to the latest Mozilla statement on the mailinglist/newsgroup:
https://groups.google.com/d/ms...
Judging by the discussions on the Mozilla mailinglists I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox will include a whilelist of currently certificates issues by CCNIC and make it so no new certificates issues by CCNIC will be valid.
At least as long as they CCNIC doesn't adhere to the proper rules. Maybe CCNIC will even get stricter rules applied to them.
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