From: Timo Hanke <timo.hanke@web•de>
To: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv1@gmx•de>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal to replace BIP0039
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 01:41:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131103064111.GI16611@crunch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5274C99A.8060304@gmx.de>
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 10:44:58AM +0100, Thomas Voegtlin wrote:
>
> >To be specific, we (in cooperation with / inspired by Timo Hanke)
> >developed method how to prove that the seed generated by Trezor
> >has been created using combination of computer-provided entropy
> >and device-provided entropy, without leaking full private
> >information to other computer, just because we want Trezor to be
> >blackbox-testable and fully deterministic (seed generation is
> >currently the only operation which uses any source of RNG).
> >
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Here is how I understand how it works,
> please correct me if I'm wrong:
>
> The user's computer picks a random number a, the Trezor picks a
> random number b.
> Trezor adds a and b in the secp256k1 group, and this creates a
> master private key k.
> Trezor sends the corresponding master public key K to the computer.
> Thus, the computer can check that K was derived from a, without knowing b.
No. You mean the computer would use B for this check?
(k,K) could be rigged by Trezor, who computes b as k-a.
Timo
> This also allows the computer to check that any bitcoin address
> derived from K is derived from a, without leaking b. (and
> reciprocally)
>
> However, it seems to me that this property will work only with bip32
> public derivations; if a private derivation is used, don't you need
> to know k?
>
>
>
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Timo Hanke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-03 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 17:29 thomasV1
2013-10-24 18:09 ` slush
2013-10-25 9:27 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-24 18:54 ` slush
2013-10-26 15:24 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-26 20:47 ` slush
2013-10-26 21:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-10-31 9:13 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-31 10:41 ` slush
2013-10-31 11:07 ` Peter Todd
2013-11-02 9:44 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-03 6:41 ` Timo Hanke [this message]
2013-11-03 7:03 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-03 7:40 ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-03 8:39 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-04 15:10 ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-16 23:41 ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-11-16 23:49 ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-11-17 0:42 ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-17 0:49 ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-10-31 11:11 ` slush
2013-10-31 11:18 ` slush
2013-11-02 10:10 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-24 21:55 ` Luke-Jr
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