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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 17:51:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+su7OWx9jrgUJrOH=tg1968vr1G1w7yXjgaRSyYJ0zRBjwpqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531AD080.40501@gmail.com>

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On 8 March 2014 17:10, Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com> wrote:


> I create a new keypair, <c_pub> with <c_priv> which I know (it can be any
> arbitrary key pair).  But I don't give you <c_pub>, I give you  <b_pub> =
> <c_pub> minus <a_pub> (which I can do because I've seen <a_pub> before
> doing this).
>
> Sure, I don't know the private key for <b_pub>, but it doesn't matter...
> because what
>
> <b_pub> + <a_pub> = <c_pub> (mine)
>
> You have no way to detect this condition, because you don't know what
> c_pub/c_priv I created, so you can only detect this after it's too late
> (after I abuse the private key)
>

Thanks Alan and Forrest, that makes sense. So to salvage the situation in
the original case, we have to make sure the parties exchange their public
keys first, before they're allowed to see the public keys they'll be
combining them with.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-08  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-08  6:55 [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol) Edmund Edgar
2014-03-08  8:10 ` Alan Reiner
2014-03-08  8:51   ` Edmund Edgar [this message]
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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