@Gavin: The linked version has still the Beta flag in the version string, perhaps you forgot to re-label it.
All Bitcoin releases are considered beta.
Topic: Version 0.6.0 released - page 4. (Read 10482 times)
All Bitcoin releases are considered beta.
False alarm - after 5 minutes or so it started going up.
Thanks to all our contributors and testers for their hard work.
Thanks to Gavin all others for you continued hard work on the very core of bitcoin.
Gavin you're a legend.
The signmessage feature is nice - but is there a way to verify the message within the GUI?
No, not yet. Anybody know if there's a web page that will do the verification? (would be easy to create one...)Gavin,
I put a sign&verify GUI into Armory, and used a BIP-10-like format to create and verify "signature blocks."
Here is an example of the signature block and the user interface. The UI needs to be cleaned up a bit, but it does work.
Unfortunately, I am not yet compatible with the Satoshi client and I suspect I'll need to handle compressed public keys to do so. But I want to get it compatible as soon as I can, so can you make sure that it is documented so I can match? You also might consider a similar "signature block" technique (or do you already have it?)
The address signing is counteranonymous and against initial goals of Bitcoin. QR codes are not used worldwide and will fall in disuse much faster than IrDA links did. I smell feature bloat.
It's pretty easy to disable support for that one, during compile time ... so if it's a sucker it's not hard to remove support for it
.@Gavin: The linked version has still the Beta flag in the version string, perhaps you forgot to re-label it.
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When will the Ubuntu Package be updated?
When the maintainer (Matt) has a little time.The signmessage feature is nice - but is there a way to verify the message within the GUI?
No, not yet. Anybody know if there's a web page that will do the verification? (would be easy to create one...)Does the software use https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021 as the QR format?
Yes.
Does the software use https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021 as the QR format?
The signmessage feature is nice - but is there a way to verify the message within the GUI?
I'd also like to know this.
Could not install on a Nordic windows7 32bit when logged in as a non admin, tried twice.
The third time I changed the installer directory to "program" instead of "program files" and it worked.
However a casual computer user will having problem will not figure that out.
If its possible to fix it would probably be good.
Really great work guys!
The third time I changed the installer directory to "program" instead of "program files" and it worked.
However a casual computer user will having problem will not figure that out.
If its possible to fix it would probably be good.
Really great work guys!
nice, glad noirc made into default setting with this update.
i'll be updating soon from 0.4
i'll be updating soon from 0.4
The address signing is counteranonymous and against initial goals of Bitcoin. QR codes are not used worldwide and will fall in disuse much faster than IrDA links did. I smell feature bloat.
I'm not sure I follow how it is counteranonymous. You fund a website/service with 20 BTC coming from address X. You can then manage your account over the internet without ever creating a username/password, supplying name or email address. The only thing that matters to the web service is that the same person who originally sent them 20 BTC is the same person telling them to transfer it to another address, purchase something, buy into a poker game, etc.
It has the same security and anonymity features as Bitcoin itself. For now, such messages might have to be manually constructed, but in the future, your BTC private key could be used to initiate SSL connections, etc.
The address signing is counteranonymous and against initial goals of Bitcoin. QR codes are not used worldwide and will fall in disuse much faster than IrDA links did. I smell feature bloat.
Btw, I would caution against saying "Signing messages ... to prove that you own an bitcoin address ...". It's very difficult for someone to say "prove you own this address" and then you can do so. A MITM could ask the person who really does own the address to prove they own it then forward the response packet to the original requestor as if they owned it themselves. There are ways to do it, but it is not likely to be executed properly, by hand.
I recommend promoting the feature as "Message signing, with address-based authentication" or something more PR-friendly. For instance, you need a shipping address to send the 1,000 BTC merchandise that was paid for [partly] with address X. You would instead ask for a shipping address signed by address X. The MITM wants to divert the package to his own location, but can't do so without breaking the signature.
The important part is that the same person who owns X approves of the message that was being signed, without regards for where the person is or when they signed it.
Perhaps that's already in your line of thinking, but I think it's a distinction worth making.
I recommend promoting the feature as "Message signing, with address-based authentication" or something more PR-friendly. For instance, you need a shipping address to send the 1,000 BTC merchandise that was paid for [partly] with address X. You would instead ask for a shipping address signed by address X. The MITM wants to divert the package to his own location, but can't do so without breaking the signature.
The important part is that the same person who owns X approves of the message that was being signed, without regards for where the person is or when they signed it.
Perhaps that's already in your line of thinking, but I think it's a distinction worth making.
When will the Ubuntu Package be updated?
The signmessage feature is nice - but is there a way to verify the message within the GUI?
nice, keep it up ! ill be donating again
Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/
EDIT:
Congratulations and thanks!
I'll have a bottle of beer to cheer this version.
Thanks for your hard work!
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