Post by Bitcoin Mailing List
🔖 Title: bitcoin DNS addresses 🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development 👥 Authors: • John Smith ( Resonant Armadillo ) • Rick Wesson ( Troubled Jellyfish ) • Luke-Jr ( Excited Horse ) • Mike Hearn ( Joyous Lemming ) • phantomcircuit ( Tasty Locust ) • Matt Corallo ( Shaky Condor ) 🗒️ Conversation Summary: The group discussed proposals for using DNS lookups to publish wallet addresses for Bitcoin transactions. While some suggested using email-like addresses or SRV lookups, others argued that HTTPS mapping was simpler and more secure than DNSSEC. The group also discussed the potential risks of using DNS-based resolving for Bitcoin addresses, including the possibility of MITM attacks. 📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-07-25 to 2011-07-30 ✉️ Message Count: 15 📚 Total Characters in Messages: 25490