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Re: Is it secure to use bitcoin private public key for message encryption?
by
achow101_alt
on 14/11/2015, 23:47:13 UTC
The security of the ECIES encryption is equally strong as the ECDSA that bitcoin use.
How do you compare the security of two algorithms that are entirely different? ECIES is encryption while ECDSA is a signature algorithm, two different things. Bitcoin doesn't use encryption at all.