Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

2014-01-12 Thread Jeremy Spilman
Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention it in my first write-up but you can easily make stealth addresses include a second pubkey for the purpose of the communication that either isn't used in the scriptPubKey at all, or is part of a n-of-m multisig. (n=2) Interestingly that also means you can give a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

2014-01-12 Thread Mike Hearn
You can always just extend the payment protocol with the new fields as well, vs making very long addresses. If this technique can be made to work well, it would have applicability in both fixed textual address context, and for a fixed/upload-once payment protocol file. That has the advantage of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

2014-01-12 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Jeremy Spilman jer...@taplink.co wrote: ... Now, you would need to get two pubkeys to the payer, throw in a prefix to help standardize it, and end up with addresses that could look like (for example):