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by somename
Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: TPP provisions on domain names
Replies: 8
Views: 9450

Re: TPP provisions on domain names

I guess even with .bit we should honor copyrights. :mrgreen: I think that refers to only signee-country domains (.jp, .us, .au, etc.) because those are what countries actually control. .bit isn't under anyone's jurisdiction (or is it?) and there's no method of enforcement (or is there?). I hope not...
by somename
Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: TPP provisions on domain names
Replies: 8
Views: 9450

Re: TPP provisions on domain names

phelix wrote:I guess even with .bit we should honor copyrights. :mrgreen:
I think that refers to only signee-country domains (.jp, .us, .au, etc.) because those are what countries actually control.

.bit isn't under anyone's jurisdiction (or is it?) and there's no method of enforcement (or is there?).
by somename
Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:19 am
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Namecoin Local PGP Keyserver
Replies: 13
Views: 62501

Re: Namecoin Local PGP Keyserver

> It looks like it is too much for this purpose but may be helpful in creating a minimal local server A recent commit makes it possible to "thin" the server: "Allow enabling or disabling of certain, more bloaty Skier features.": https://github.com/SkierPGP/Skier/commit/4bd102cb0ca8530893a7a073f5b46e...
by somename
Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:47 pm
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Builds
Replies: 16
Views: 17713

Re: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Bu

biolizard89 wrote: The bigger problem is building Python reproducibly on Windows. (I'm not sure about OS X.)
I don't know if you know (I didn't, until couple of weeks ago when I tried to actually use Gitian), but all (Lin, Win, OSX) builds are built on Linux.
by somename
Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:09 am
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Builds
Replies: 16
Views: 17713

Re: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Bu

Would it be worthwhile for Namecoin to maintain instructions for building Namecoin Core (which might differ from Bitcoin's instructions in a few strings)? The benefit is that it would be easier for people to copy/paste; the downside is that if Bitcoin updates their docs, we might have to manually r...
by somename
Sun Sep 27, 2015 5:41 am
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Builds
Replies: 16
Views: 17713

Re: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Bu

The Gitian documentation in the Bitcoin Core repo is reasonably complete and up-to-date. Don't use the docs from the Gitian repo, as Bitcoin's usage is a little bit different. If you have any trouble with it, please feel free to ask questions -- we have a number of people here who use Gitian (jbisc...
by somename
Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:23 am
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Builds
Replies: 16
Views: 17713

Re: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Bu

Yes, you do have to trust to some extent, but maybe one day when all open source software (including OSes) are being built reproducibly, that trust will be limited to hardware for users of open source software instead of hardware and software as we do now. Or maybe reproducible builds will all just...
by somename
Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:34 pm
Forum: Official Namecoin softwares
Topic: Porting v0.3.80 namecoin-qt "Manage Names" tab to namecore
Replies: 11
Views: 53676

Re: Porting v0.3.80 namecoin-qt "Manage Names" tab to nameco

Is there any work on-going to achieve this? I can help with building/testing/debugging and probably some juicy NMC bounty. Hi moa, Some people were wondering how much of a bounty you'd be willing to put up for this. Any chance you could specify this? Thanks. No response so far. What does "no respon...
by somename
Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:29 pm
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Builds
Replies: 16
Views: 17713

Re: Security Implications of (Non)Reproducible Middleware Bu

If you don't trust Python.org's checksum-ed binaries, why trust their source (and all the Python modules from authors who usually trust Python.org or Linux distro binaries)?
by somename
Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:30 pm
Forum: Official Namecoin softwares
Topic: .conf RPC Authorization
Replies: 11
Views: 51993

Re: .conf RPC Authorization

Note that on Windows it is possible to read the data directory location from the registry it was changed from default during client installation. I have already tested reading this out but still need to add it to namerpc.py I never knew about that, even after using Bitcoin Core (ex. Qt) on Windows ...