Re: BitAuth from Adrian Hope-Bailie on 2014-07-03 (public-webpayments@w3.org from July 2014)

From: Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 20:58:13 +0200
To: "Reutzel, Bailey" <bailey.reutzel@sourcemedia.com>
Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+eFz_L2f5UTm_s40ZG06x+qGmsKeLCrx5tyWS_9_Zmmq+pnvA@mail.gmail.com>

Am I missing something or is this HTTP-Signatures with a small twist?

The only thing that makes it similar in any way to BitCoin is the use of a
ECDSA secp256k1 keypair


On 3 July 2014 20:07, Reutzel, Bailey <bailey.reutzel@sourcemedia.com>
wrote:

>  BitPay’s proposal for passwordless authentication:
> http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/01/bitauth-for-decentralized-authentication.html
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> Thought you all would be interested. J
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> -B
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