If you write good patches to add PGP/WoT authentication, I suspect they would be merged in a heartbeat.
As far as I can tell, no one is opposed to such a thing, they just don't think it has a very good payoff to effort ratio compared to authentication using the global SSL PKI. Because of this, it is not a good candidate for being built first. If you disagree, feel free to write some code, or convince/bribe someone to do so.
Topic: Can we talk about removing SSL from the payment protocol and put PGP? - page 3. (Read 2455 times)
April 09, 2014, 08:02:28 AM
April 09, 2014, 08:01:33 AM
Couldn't we just have a small no fee unconfirmed payment required for security?
April 09, 2014, 06:42:56 AM
PGP, SSL What's the difference?
please explain a little , so that non technical people like me fallow you.
please explain a little , so that non technical people like me fallow you.
April 09, 2014, 06:40:18 AM
I totally agreed that PGP might be a better option. Because it will be more decentralized then using SSL.
April 09, 2014, 06:36:04 AM
I think PGP would be better than SSL
You can talk about it all you like; the devs will just ignore you, like everybody else who told them this.
The payment
Or more specifically, as in this case, you aren't solving a problem you're just hiding a problem (invoice authentication) behind a much harder, much more-unsolved and probably-never-solvable problem (general purpose PKI) so you can piggyback off of the excuses crafted by the probably-never-solvable-problem's non-solution vendors.
General-purpose, worldwide, universally trusted PKI will never exist.
Tossing your lot in with the "most popular failed attempt" at solving this problem is much, much worse than admitting that nobody knows how to solve this problem and secure systems shouldn't be based on the assumption that it can be solved.
April 09, 2014, 05:03:50 AM
This is not bad idea at all but it need to be think about and it would be not so easy to implement. But 
idea seems not bad.
idea seems not bad. April 08, 2014, 07:16:07 PM
I think PGP would be better than SSL, plus all can be keyservers or a DHT keyserver. It really wouldn't be too hard to add this. I think we need to reopen this discussion. Remember the payment protocol doesn't hinder users because of how technical it is but companies that want to use bitcoins can easily do this.
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