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From: Lloyd Fournier <lloyd.fourn@gmail•com>
To: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt•org>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] PSA: Taproot loss of quantum protections
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 10:27:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH5Bsr20n2T7KRTYqycSUx0iEuEApC8NGtPCfN8rYhRyHLE4gA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210316002401.zlfbc3y2s7vbrh35@ganymede>

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On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 11:25, David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>
> I curious about whether anyone informed about ECC and QC
> knows how to create output scripts with lower difficulty that could be
> used to measure the progress of QC-based EC key cracking.  E.g.,
> NUMS-based ECDSA- or taproot-compatible scripts with a security strength
> equivalent to 80, 96, and 112 bit security.


Hi Dave,

This is actually relatively easy if you are willing to use a trusted setup.
The trusted party takes a secp256k1 secret key and verifiably encrypt it
under a NUMS public key from the weaker group. Therefore if you can crack
the weaker group's public key you get the secp256k1 secret key.
Camenisch-Damgard[1] cut-and-choose verifiable encryption works here.
People then pay the secp256k1 public key funds to create the bounty. As
long as the trusted party deletes the secret key afterwards the scheme is
secure.

Splitting the trusted setup among several parties where only one of them
needs to be honest looks doable but would take some engineering and
analysis work.

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-44448-3_25.pdf

Cheers,

LL

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-05  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-15 21:48 Luke Dashjr
2021-03-15 22:05 ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-15 22:30   ` Robert Spigler
2021-03-15 22:40   ` Jeremy
2021-03-15 22:48     ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-15 23:01       ` Karl-Johan Alm
2021-03-15 23:19         ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-15 23:46         ` Lloyd Fournier
2021-03-16  0:50         ` Anthony Towns
2021-03-16  2:38           ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-03-16  3:44   ` Luke Dashjr
2021-03-16 13:28     ` Andrew Poelstra
2021-03-16 17:25     ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-17  1:23       ` Ryan Grant
2021-03-17 11:56         ` Eoin McQuinn
2021-03-15 23:12 ` Andrew Poelstra
2021-03-16 14:10   ` Andrea
2021-03-16 15:15     ` [bitcoin-dev] Provisions (was: PSA: Taproot loss of quantum protections) Andrew Poelstra
2021-03-17  4:24       ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-03-17  8:29         ` Andrea
2021-03-20 16:31           ` Andrea Barontini
2021-03-16  0:24 ` [bitcoin-dev] PSA: Taproot loss of quantum protections David A. Harding
2021-04-05  0:27   ` Lloyd Fournier [this message]
2021-04-16  3:47     ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-04-16  5:00       ` Lloyd Fournier
2021-03-22 14:24 ` Erik Aronesty
2021-03-23  9:36   ` Martin Schwarz
2021-03-23 10:50   ` Tim Ruffing
2021-08-12 22:08   ` Erik Aronesty

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