Re: hardening brain-wallets with a useful blind proof of work
Now don't speculate on my intentions as it's unproductive, to my best knowledge(and I suspect a lot of people) it was Jon Matonis who came up with the idea of brainwallet, and he made it clear in the Forbes article that deniability was his major concern. If you have some first-hand secret history, it would be way more helpful if you could please just share it.
No, it was a person who goes by the name of "Joric", who also went and created the website. The discussion wasn't secret, it was all in #bitcoin on freenode in early 2011 IIRC. The logs for the channel aren't public, but I can send them to you if you're curious.Now since you were the one talking about the unreliability of common folks in generating dictionary passwords(like how can they not follow proper procedures), maybe you should also talk about how difficult it would be for people to use such mnemonic encodings?
Electrum users don't seem to mind. Correctly written software should may it easy and standards exist to help people make best practices sofware, I certainly don't expect people to go out and roll their own implementations. Or did you write your own copy of SHA256?
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Maybe, it would be interesting to see what FBI could do with Ross Ulbricht's bitcoins.
Lot of good they're currently doing him (or likely to do him ever considering the charges). I'd really rather not participate in a discussion where someone with charges like this is held up as exemplar, as it's too easy to go off on a insane tangent.But thats the thing about security it exists in the context of many other things. Bitcoins that can't be taken from you only achieve their full value to a spherical-convict who can't be put in a jail cell. It also has to be weighed against the very real risk that you run a fever and forget the key. For every person whos coins are attempted to be seized there will be 100 others who just forget their keys. ::shrugs::