From: Edmund Edgar <ed@realitykeys.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 15:55:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+su7OUMgeWgkMFAmmMEpW3eN=cvU47MKt51idDrmCWEiCb+VQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 4 March 2014 14:07, Odinn Cyberguerrilla <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net
> wrote:
> Nothing is safe.
>
This is true. To rephrase, imagine I gave you an ECC public key <ed_pub>,
you gave me back a public key <odinn_pub> of your own devising, then I paid
some money to the address resulting from add_pubkeys(<ed_pub>,<odinn_pub>)
[1]. Can anyone either:
a) Think of a way that Odinn could make an <odinn_pub> such that they could
spend the resulting money without having <ed_priv>.
b) Opine, somewhat knowledgeably, that this probably wouldn't be an easy
thing to do, and they wouldn't be alarmed to see people running software
that did this kind of thing.
[1]
https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools/blob/master/pybitcointools/main.py#L173
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-08 6:55 Edmund Edgar [this message]
2014-03-08 8:10 ` [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol) Alan Reiner
2014-03-08 8:51 ` Edmund Edgar
2014-03-08 10:37 ` Joel Kaartinen
2014-03-08 17:41 ` Adam Back
2014-03-08 18:15 ` Natanael
2014-03-08 23:13 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-08 20:30 ` Alan Reiner
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2014-03-04 2:59 Edmund Edgar
2014-03-04 5:07 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
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