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Re: [PROPOSAL] Untrackable addresses
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thanke
on 20/12/2012, 20:42:27 UTC
Cool idea!

However, if someone sends money twice from the same normal address to the same proposed address, then destination normal address will also be the same.

You can replace d by d*txid before deriving E, to get a unique address for each transaction even when resending from the same A.
Here txin is the hash of the output owned by A that is used as input for the transaction. The receiver sees txin as he iterates over all inputs.

Well, d is an EC point hashed to an integer. So it can be implemented this way:

d=hash(A*c)=hash(C*a)
E=B+G*d
e=b+d

Here, hash is any hash function, and G is the base point.

Practically, d would just be the x-coordinate of the point A*c, no need for a "real hash".

A remark, just to inform the readers of this paper (which was posted in this thread):
Your proposal makes a very nice substitution for the "signalling protocol" described in section IV.D of that paper, which is sub-optimal because it requires the private key to detect and monitor incoming payment. Your proposal invents the "semi-private" key and thereby allows to detect and monitor incoming payments without having to have the private key at hand. Taking A=B, hence private key=semi-private key, would give the old protocol.