Re: [Bitcoin-development] cryptographic review requested

2014-10-22 Thread Pavol Rusnak
On 10/22/2014 10:46 AM, Chris D'Costa wrote: Looks great, but how would you resolve the problem of knowing for certain that the public key you have received to encrypt the message is not from a MITM? Isn't this the same problem with PGP? -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak

Re: [Bitcoin-development] cryptographic review requested

2014-10-22 Thread Pavol Rusnak
On 09/23/2014 11:12 PM, Mem Wallet wrote: - M,Sender_Address = ReceiveMessage( eM, Decrypting_Key ) It is acceptable for deterministic nonces to be used for signatures, however nonces generated for ECIES must be high quality random bytes. (excepting unit test vectors) Could you

Re: [Bitcoin-development] cryptographic review requested

2014-10-21 Thread Pavol Rusnak
On 09/23/2014 11:12 PM, Mem Wallet wrote: communication. To address gmaxwell's criticism, I'd like to also follow up with a proposed change to BIP44, such that a structured wallet would also include a series of identity keys, both addresses which will be used for signing, and public keys which

[Bitcoin-development] cryptographic review requested

2014-09-23 Thread Mem Wallet
Hello, I've made a proposal for a standardized ecies scheme for bitcoin communication. To address gmaxwell's criticism, I'd like to also follow up with a proposed change to BIP44, such that a structured wallet would also include a series of identity keys, both addresses which will be used for