Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 18:09:30
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Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-10 📝 Original message:On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2018-01-10
📝 Original message:On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Pavol Rusnak <stick at satoshilabs.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/18 16:12, Pavol Rusnak via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> On 09/01/18 00:47, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>> Have you considered using blind host-delegated KDFs, where the KDF
>>> runs on the user's computer instead of the hardware wallet, but the
>>> computer doesn't learn anything about they keys?
>>
>> Any examples of these?

Yes, this scheme.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=311000.msg3342217#msg3342217

> Actually, scratch that. HW wallet would not know whether the host
> computer is lying or not. The computer would not learn about the keys,
> but still could be malicious and provide invalid result. Is that correct?


I believe that can be avoided by having the computer do somewhat more
work and checking the consistency after the fact.

(or for decode time, having a check value under the encryption...)
Author Public Key
npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet