Re: [Lightning-dev] Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA

2018-05-08 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Benjamin, Your caution is laudable, I think. > Yes, bitcoin is wise to at least hash the pub key until use. Granted, > lightning (necessarily?) risks public key exposure, but in a pinch there are > other signature algorithms for lightning to move to. Lightning cannot *quickly*

Re: [Lightning-dev] Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA

2018-05-08 Thread Benjamin Mord
If I'm not mistaken, the scriptless scripts concept (as currently formulated) falls to Schor's algorithm, and at present there is no alternative implementation of the concept to fall back on. Correct? Lest we build a house of cards, I'd strongly urge everyone to not depend on functional concepts