* [Bitcoin-development] address collision and undependability
@ 2013-06-06 11:37 Melvin Carvalho
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From: Melvin Carvalho @ 2013-06-06 11:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bitcoin Dev
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There was a discussion on #bitcon-dev yesterday
I stated that it would be impractical to generate two bitcoin addresses,
such that they differed in exactly one character (modulo different
checksums).
The corollary to this is that if you find an address with a verifiable
signature. Changing one character of that address would have no known
private key, and hence be normally undependable.
Does that sound correct?
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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] address collision and undependability
@ 2013-06-06 12:00 Byte Coin
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From: Byte Coin @ 2013-06-06 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bitcoin Dev
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From https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20955.msg264038#msg264038
This may be an appropriate thread to mention that the the "checksum" at the end of an address does not effectively prevent single character errors or transpositions.
For instance https://blockexplorer.com/search/1ByteCoin shows that
1ByteCoinAddressesMatch1kpCWNXmHKW 1ByteCoinAddressesMatch1kpCxNXmHKW
are both valid addresses even though they only differ by one character.
Similarly, the valid addresses
1ByteCoinAddressesMatchcNN781jjwLY 1ByteCoinAddressesMatchcNN718jjwLY
only differ by one transposition.
ByteCoin
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From: Melvin Carvalho
Sent: 06/06/13 12:37 PM
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Subject: [Bitcoin-development] address collision and undependability
There was a discussion on #bitcon-dev yesterday
I stated that it would be impractical to generate two bitcoin addresses, such that they differed in exactly one character (modulo different checksums).
The corollary to this is that if you find an address with a verifiable signature. Changing one character of that address would have no known private key, and hence be normally undependable.
Does that sound correct?
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