Quote from: Carlton Banks on April 05, 2014, 03:31:43 PM

Quote from: Peter Todd on April 05, 2014, 02:03:15 PM

Of course, remember that if you're writing Bitcoin software, it's really easy to be in a situation where millions of dollars worth of value are controlled by your software. That's why the Bitcoin sourcecode and binaries are protected by both OpenPGP and CA's.

Yup, when updating to 0.9.0 on my main wallet, I:

Checked certificate/signature for bitcoin.org
Verified SHA256.asc file
Ran the hashing checksum on the tarball

And I do not see a reason not to check the website certificate, even if it's the simplest/weakest security on offer. You want every assurance you can get if it's where most of your coins are stowed. Should really go to the CA website and try to find fingerprints to compare with manually, but I think the browser is doing that automatically anyway, so it would be a peace of mind thing more than anything.

i think it will automatically when evertime connect and some defense for big bucks in cold walletthats important to . to save money in the right place

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