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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: erik@q32.com, Erik Aronesty <earonesty@gmail.com>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Number Request: Addresses over Audio
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:38:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBi6mPviRRKysbuuOFKoYoyTufpUO_rJxJdB-8=7KGurYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJowKgK0N9VJZsm4fbZ5VvteUjoQkh9-xhg1yfcD3NRTuFV78Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> By sending a public seed,  there's no way for someone to use the transmitted
> address and trace the total amount of payments to it.

Worse. By revealing a public seed, anyone who has seen it (= anyone
who ever pays you through it) can identity all payments to _any_
address derived from that seed.

-- 
Pieter


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08 21:22 [bitcoin-dev] BIP Number Request: Addresses over Audio Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-08 22:06 ` Justin Newton
2016-08-08 22:35   ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-08 22:59   ` Trevin Hofmann
2016-08-09  1:50     ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-09 23:06       ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-10  0:17         ` Jannes Faber
2016-08-10  0:27         ` Chris Riley
2016-08-10  0:36         ` Luke Dashjr
2016-08-10  1:09         ` Thomas Daede
2016-08-10  1:53           ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-10  2:14         ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-10 10:41           ` Tier Nolan
2016-08-10 11:42             ` Erik Aronesty
2016-08-10 11:49               ` Theo Chino
2016-08-10 16:01                 ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-10 17:28                   ` Erik Aronesty
2016-08-10 17:38                     ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2016-08-10 17:55                       ` Daniel Hoffman
2016-08-10 22:31                         ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-11 13:55                       ` Erik Aronesty
2016-08-11 15:13                         ` Tier Nolan
2016-08-11 20:37                           ` Erik Aronesty
2016-08-12  0:36                             ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-12 12:36                               ` Erik Aronesty
2016-08-12 15:49                                 ` Jorge Timón
2016-08-12 18:39                                 ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-13  4:41                                   ` Daniel Hoffman

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