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From: Tim Ruffing <crypto@timruffing•de>
To: vjudeu <vjudeu@gazeta•pl>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Sum of the keys attack on taproot
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 22:25:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13a8be987fc22ecc6284de4b84ef5310f2cd420c.camel@timruffing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131606955-6366ea10aec2eec765339d72e7c936ab@pmq5v.m5r2.onet>

On Sat, 2021-05-15 at 12:21 +0200, vjudeu via bitcoin-dev wrote:


>  All that is needed is producing a signature matching the sum of the
> public keys used in taproot, which is "(a+b-a)*G", 

This is simply not true.

Taproot does not enable this, or any other form of "cross-input
aggregation", i.e., spending multiple UTXOs with a single signature. 


Tim



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-15 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-15 10:21 vjudeu
2021-05-15 20:25 ` Tim Ruffing [this message]
2021-05-15 20:35   ` Ruben Somsen

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