Re: [bitcoin-dev] Removing Single Point of Failure with Seed Phrase Storage

2020-03-06 Thread Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:56 PM Jeremy via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > As a replacement for paper, something like this makes sense v.s. what you > do with a ledger presently. > > However, shamir's shares notoriously have the issue that the key does > exist plainte

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Schnorr sigs vs pairing sigs

2020-03-06 Thread Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev
Hi Erik, There are a strong arguments for and against pairing based sigs in Bitcoin. One very strong argument in favour over non-deterministic signatures like Schnorr over BLS is it enables a kind of signature encryption called "adaptor signatures". This construction is key to many exciting up and