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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Stealth address with SX (anonymous payments)
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marcus_of_augustus
on 16/01/2014, 21:33:02 UTC
This concept is awesome, but needs some PR reworking. Can we consider renaming this to something like "restricted," "confidential," "personal," "private" or "nonpublic" . "Stealth" has an off-the-books connotation that doesn't fit what govs. want to see in Crypto right now.

Maybe since it is in essence a Diffie-Hellman key exchange technique ... you could call it Forward Privacy Transaction or DH-TX or some such ... i.e. in same name as the original cryptographic technique it is based upon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange


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while the authentication part of ssl would have to be dealt with separately through some pgp stuff or x509 or whatever?

... you could use a stealth address secured in the namecoin blockchain for human-readable authentication, without a 3rd party.