Quote from: kgo on April 09, 2014, 07:05:51 PM

Quote from: gweedo on April 09, 2014, 06:56:57 PM

Quote from: kgo on April 09, 2014, 06:51:01 PM

There isn't a widely used transport layer standard for OpenPGP, which is what the protocol needs, so TLS is probably a better choice then PGP for the actual encryption.

This is very much false, all information could be encrypted using the public key of the user that wants to send the bitcoins and then decrypt by their machine. Also I wouldn't include gpg into the actually bitcoin client I would have it called out to the shell so their is a disconnect of passwords and stuff.

No it's not false. TLS (per its name) happens at the transport layer. It's baked into every http library in the world. There really isn't a standard to do this for OpenPGP that anyone uses or is supported by any library. What you're proposing requires everyone to implement an ad-hoc poorly specified made-up-just-for-bip-70 encryption scheme and shoving it into the presentation layer.

We are talking about two different things, you are saying I want to take the transport layer and wrap it in a PGP encryption which is not what i am talking about. I am talking taking a public key encrypting data so only that private key can read it. Two very different things.