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From: Tim Ruffing <tim.ruffing@mmci.uni-saarland.de>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Transition to post-quantum
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:50:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518450650.7829.87.camel@mmci.uni-saarland.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEpHQHP7XXBYUP6CF1OeYoBpj0UwK+qpYG-14_zQZDX4Md7UA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Tristan,

Regarding the "Post-Quantum Address Recovery" part (I haven't read the
other parts), you may be interested in my message to the list from last
month and the rest of the thread:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-January/015659.html

This is an approach which aims to avoid the issues that you've
mentioned in your blog post.

Best,
Tim

On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 01:13 +1100, Tristan Hoy via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I've been exploring what a post-quantum attack on Bitcoin
> would actually look like, and what options exist for mitigating it.
> 
> I've put up a draft of my research here: https://medium.com/@tristanh
> oy/11271f430c41 
> 
> In summary:
> 1) None of the recommended post-quantum DSAs (XMSS, SPHINCS) are
> scalable
> 2) This is a rapidly advancing space and committment to a specific
> post-quantum DSA now would be premature
> 3) I've identified a strategy (solution 3 in the draft) that
> mitigates against the worst case scenario (unexpectedly early attack
> on ECDSA) without requiring any changes to the Bitcoin protocol or
> total committment to a specific post-quantum DSA that will likely be
> superseded in the next 3-5 years
> 4) This strategy also serves as a secure means of transferring
> balances into a post-quantum DSA address space, even in the event
> that ECDSA is fully compromised and the transition is reactionary
> 
> The proposal is a change to key generation only and will be
> implemented by wallet providers.
> 
> Feedback would be most appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tristan
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12 14:13 [bitcoin-dev] Transition to post-quantum Tristan Hoy
2018-02-12 15:50 ` Tim Ruffing [this message]
2018-02-12 21:32   ` Tristan Hoy
2018-02-13  6:46     ` Tim Ruffing
2018-02-13 10:06       ` Tristan Hoy
2018-02-15 15:59         ` Tim Ruffing
2018-02-15 20:27           ` Natanael
2018-02-15 21:57             ` Tim Ruffing
2018-02-15 22:44               ` Natanael
2018-02-15 22:45                 ` Natanael
2018-02-15 23:44                 ` Tim Ruffing
2019-10-24 15:34                   ` Erik Aronesty

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