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From: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt•org>
To: Tadge Dryja <rx@awsomnet•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Development Mailing List <bitcoindev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Trivial QC signatures with clean upgrade path
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:38:00 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56e0005eb75e4f1720a5aabbcdb0535c@dtrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <374d6201-fb43-48df-abbc-f01ef1944a7dn@googlegroups.com>

On 2024-12-16 12:20, Tadge Dryja wrote:
> An on-chain proof of quantum computer (PoQC I guess :) ) would be a
> way to reduce the damage of activation forks.  One way to build it:
> Create a NUMS point pubkey - something like described in BIP341.  Send
> some coins to that address, then watch if it gets spent. [...]
> Nodes can then have code which
> watches for such a proof and changes consensus rules based on it.

I think this could be even more useful if combined with a previous idea 
far creating a NUMS[1][3] (or trust minimized[2]) pubkey compatible with 
Bitcoin but with a security strength less than 128 bits.  That way 
someone might claim the bounty of the key with (say) 96 bits security 
potentially months or years before QC advances made regular keys 
insecure and tempted operators of QCs into stealing from regular user 
addresses.

-Dave

[1] 
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CAH5Bsr20n2T7KRTYqycSUx0iEuEApC8NGtPCfN8rYhRyHLE4gA@mail.gmail.com/
[2] 
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/aRiFFJKz5wyHFDi2dXcGbNEHZD2nIwDRk7gaXIte-N1BoOEOQ-ySYRnk0P70S5igANSr2iqF2ZKV1dWvipaQHK4fJSv9A61-uH7w4pzxKRE=@protonmail.com/
[3] 
https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CAH5Bsr39kw08ki76aezJ1EM9e7mdLFLUmtKwJJNYcyuMpR_Cuw@mail.gmail.com/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-01 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-15 21:42 Matt Corallo
2024-12-15 23:54 ` Luke Dashjr
2024-12-16  1:30   ` Weikeng Chen
2024-12-16  1:40     ` Matt Corallo
2024-12-16 11:14 ` Anthony Towns
2024-12-16 15:57   ` Matt Corallo
2024-12-16 22:20   ` Tadge Dryja
2024-12-17  5:31     ` 'conduition' via Bitcoin Development Mailing List
2024-12-18  3:29       ` Antoine Riard
2025-01-01  8:38     ` David A. Harding [this message]
2025-01-02  0:43       ` Ian Quantum
2025-01-01  8:37 ` David A. Harding

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