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Re: same public key
by
leijurv
on 02/07/2013, 13:16:39 UTC
However, there could be a RIPEMD-160 hash collision of two different ECDSA pubkey point. That would have two different privkeys with one pubkey.

their would be 2 keypairs, where the hash of the public keys would be equal.

keypair A: (Apub, Apriv)
keypair B: (Bpub, Bpriv)

Apub != Bpub and Apriv != Bpriv

BUT!!!!!

hash(Apub) == hash(Bpub)
Yes. However, that would mean that the bitcoin address itself would be the same. Funds sent to that bitcoin address could be spent by either private key; the txout script only checks the hash of the pubkey key, not the public key itself.