SimpleBitID

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SimpleBitID v0.05 Copyright (C) 2014 Antoine FERRON

This is a really basic client for BitID protocol for PC. There is a one-click installer for Windows (XP, 2k, Vista, 7, 8 & 8.1). Minimal but easy to use. The main goal is to provide API in python for a client implementation of the BitID protocol.

Windows Install : Just install the exe (in release) and enjoy!

Linux or MacOSX install:

• Be sure you have python 2.7 installed
• Download the tar.gz in release
• Uncompress it
• register "bitid" protocol to call something like: "python2.7 /dir-to-simplebitiD/SimplebitID.py %s" Note that in Linux, the window manager is responsible for that. So it depends if you have Gnome, KDE or XFCE, LXDE, etc... It can be also added directly in the web browser sometimes.

Usage : When clicking on a "bitid://" link in your browser, it will launch SimpleBitID and identify you.

Licence related: Some portions based on : "python-ecdsa" Copyright (C) 2010 Brian Warner (MIT Licence) "Simple Python elliptic curves and ECDSA" Copyright (C) 2005 Peter Pearson (public domain)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Bit ID Protocol : https://github.com/bitid/bitid/blob/master/BIP_draft.md Demos : http://bitid.bitcoin.blue/

More details abour SimpleBitID : No GUI for now. Just use a 256 bits key in your user directory.

At startup, it generates your private key in %APPDATA%\SimpleBitID This file contains private key in ascii-hex (without "0x"). You can import your own key in converting and putting it in this file.

ECDSA uses random "k", not deterministic signing.

Random source for key generation or signing is : CryptGenRandom in Windows /dev/urandom in Unix-like

For RFC6979 signature, you can check ECDSA_BTC.py in Fast_Sign_Verify

Possible improvements:

• PIN or password to read private key file (AES encrytion)
• GUI
• Easy install in Linux and MacOSX
• Use other random sources
• Determinstic ECDSA (RFC 6979)
• Key Import and Export

Compilation : make of bin installer in Windows:

1. Needs

• Python 2.7.6 32bits
• py2exe 0.6.9 Win32 py27
• 7zip 9.2
• 7zip SFX Builder 2.0.5

2. Edit BUILD.dat To point to the right directory of python, 7zip & 7zSfxB
3. Launch BUILD.dat Edit SFX_data or change info in 7zSfxB if you want
4. At the end, one new exe is created which is Win installer.