Bitcoin supernova 2016

New[ s ] sources have quote it without valid reason too [ sic ]. Digital wallet Coinbase, rival exchanges Bitstamp. This tragic violation of the trust of users of Mt. There are hundreds of trustworthy and responsible companies involved in bitcoin. These companies will continue to build the future of money by making bitcoin more secure and easy to use for consumers and merchants.

As with any new industry, there are certain bad actors that need to be weeded out, and that is what we are seeing today. Mtgox has confirmed its issues in private discussions with other members of the bitcoin community. Some people have suggested that MtGox is set to be sold to an undisclosed buyer, a theory supported by the source code of its homepage on Tuesday morning:. This would appear to be borne out by the recent statement from Karpeles, with his statement to Reuters mentioning that "this also involves other parties".

Reddit detectives found a record on the blockchain showing a series of transactions stretching back several years, which amounted to a total of more than , Bitcoins. Although this looks suspicious, there is no way of telling whether this is actually MtGox's Bitcoin wallet. There's no real way to know. It's totally public and open, yet still pretty anonymous. Other observers speculated the collapse was a "social engineering" stunt, designed to send the price of Bitcoin tumbling.

Whoever devised this plan would then snap up the cheaper funny money and sell it off again when the price buoyed upwards. From the language of the CEO's statement, we gather the real story is not quite so dramatic. We'll update when we know more. Minds Mastering Machines - Call for papers now open. The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing. Join our daily or weekly newsletters, subscribe to a specific section or set News alerts.

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This set of random numbers will serve as the private key. Finally, check to make sure these hashes match the hashes in the public key that correspond with the message digest.

So there you have it, a quantum-resistant digital signature scheme using only hash functions. Only the person in possession of the random numbers in the private key could have generated a signature that hashes to the public key when compared to the digest.

The reason for this is because you are essentially releasing half of your private key with each signature. If you were to sign multiple messages, your private key would be completely compromised. If this were used in Bitcoin, you still could only use each Bitcoin address once. Equally problematic, the key sizes and signatures are ridiculously large. The private and public keys are 6, bytes compared to 32 and 64 for the ECDSA private and public keys.

And the signature is 3, bytes compared to bytes. Bitcoin already has issues with scalability, increasing the key and signature sizes by that much would make the problems much worse. The Lamport private key can be dramatically reduced in size by generating the random numbers from a single random seed.

There is another one-time signature scheme called Winternitz signatures that has the potential to reduce key size but at the cost of hash operations. The Merkle Signature Scheme combines the one-time signature scheme either Lamport or Winternitz with a Merkle tree also called a hash tree. This allows us to use one public key to sign many messages without worrying about compromising security.

To do this, the public keys are paired together, hashed, then the hashes are concatenated together and hashed again. The hash at the very top of the tree the Merkle root is the Merkle public key.

This massively reduces the public key size from 6, bytes in the Lamport signature to only 20 bytes, the length of a single RIPEMD hash. To calculate a signature, you select one of your Lamport key pairs and sign the message digest just like before. This time, the signature will be the Lamport signature plus each one of leafs in the Merkle tree leading from the public key to the root. To verify the Merkle signature one would just verify the Lamport signature, then check to make sure the leafs hash to the Merkle public key.

If so, the signature is valid. First, the public and private keys are reduced to 20 bytes from 6, bytes. Also, you can create multiple signatures per public key. But there is still a major draw back. The more messages you want to sign with your public key, the larger the Merkle tree needs to be. The larger the tree, the larger the signature. Eventually the signature starts to become impractically large, especially for use in Bitcoin.

MSS has been known for over 30 years and has remained essentially unscathed despite extensive cryptanalysis. However, most of the improvements to it have come in the last five years or so. In my brief survey of the literature, it seems a couple signature schemes by Buchmann, Dahmen, Klintsevich, et.

Two of the cryptographers behind this signature scheme are authors of a textbook on post-quantum cryptography. GMSS in particular offers virtually unlimited signature capacity at 2 80 signatures but with slower performance in others areas compared to CMSS. They accomplishes this by breaking the system up into separate Merkle trees of 2 n leafs. A signature from the root tree is used to sign the public key of the tree below it which signs the tree below it and so on.

But why not just go ahead and implement it now and rather than wait until the NSA springs a surprise on us? Consider some very rough estimates: The block chain is currently at Had Bitcoin employed either of these signature schemes from the beginning, it would be over gigabytes right now. Also, note the insane keygen time for GMSS. I suspect, however, that an ASIC hardware wallet would significantly improve that performance.

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