ZmnSCPxj [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2020-03-10 📝 Original message: Good morning Rusty, et ...
📅 Original date posted:2020-03-10
📝 Original message:
Good morning Rusty, et al.,
> Note that this means no payment secret is necessary, since the incoming
> `blinding` serves the same purpose. If we wanted to, we could (ab)use
> payment_secret as the first 32-bytes to put in Carol's enc1 (i.e. it's
> the ECDH for Carol to decrypt enc1).
I confess to not reading everything in detail, but it seems to me that, with payment point + scalar and path decorrelation, we need to establish a secret with each hop anyway (the blinding scalar for path decorrelation), so if you need a secret per hop, possibly this could be reused as well?
Regards,
ZmnSCPxj
📝 Original message:
Good morning Rusty, et al.,
> Note that this means no payment secret is necessary, since the incoming
> `blinding` serves the same purpose. If we wanted to, we could (ab)use
> payment_secret as the first 32-bytes to put in Carol's enc1 (i.e. it's
> the ECDH for Carol to decrypt enc1).
I confess to not reading everything in detail, but it seems to me that, with payment point + scalar and path decorrelation, we need to establish a secret with each hop anyway (the blinding scalar for path decorrelation), so if you need a secret per hop, possibly this could be reused as well?
Regards,
ZmnSCPxj