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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: coin mixing using Chaum's blind signatures
by
Ari
on 09/03/2013, 15:18:09 UTC
bitcoind uses (256-bit) ecdsa keys, so i would expect the bleeding of signing key via prime factors, which is specific to rsa, to be irrelevant.

i could, of course, be wrong Smiley

Blind signatures, as described by David Chaum, are based on RSA.

Anyway, the basic idea is that someone buys a blind signature from the mixer, then some time later uses that signature to get money back, but the mixer can't connect the two.  The blind signature is not used to directly sign bitcoin transactions.