Erik Aronesty [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-08-11 📝 Original message:Sorr, I thought there was ...

📅 Original date posted:2016-08-11
📝 Original message:Sorr, I thought there was some BIP for a public seed such that someone can
generate new random addresses, but cannot trivially verify whether an
address was derived from the seed.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at 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
>
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