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Re: Encrypt/Decrypt arbitrary text using bitcoin keys?
by
martin
on 06/08/2011, 13:33:16 UTC
The encryption algorithm used in bitcoin is ECDSA which does not encrypt text, it's just a signature algorithm.

So, Alice could sign some text with her bitcoin address and Bob would know that it came from her (which would be a rather useful thing to be able to do with transactions).