Timeline for Is there a secret number that is only known by the sender and the receiver after making a transaction?
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 8:33 | comment | added | Eyal | The public key of the receiver is not in the transaction, only the public key of the sender. The hash of the public key of the receiver is in the transaction, but I don't see how that is enough to make a shared secret. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 22:35 | comment | added | Barack Obama | With current whitelisted scripts, all transactions (apart from coinbase) allow the recipient to obtain a public key where the sender knows the private key. You are right that if the coins are sent to an address from which there have never been any spends then the sender cannot complete their half of the key agreement until the recipient spends the coins or otherwise reveals the relevant public key. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 13:26 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Could you elaborate on how this works? In particular, is it a problem that an address is not itself a public key, but only its hash? | |
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| Sep 14, 2013 at 2:05 | history | answered | Barack Obama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |