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Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

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Re: Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

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Due to the tendency to patch and mitigate known security vulnerabilities, there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed.

>there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed Who? Satoshi? Pseudonymous C++ programmer coding digital cash experiment in his home. Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer[0]. [0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptograph...

Well, who was in Satoshi’s orbit, and did Satoshi have an employer?

Re: Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

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Who was it, do you think?

My money's on Hal Finney.

How do you reconcile this with the fact that Satoshi sent both an email and a bitcoin transaction while Hal was busy running a 10 mile race? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155

Re: Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

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He died, yes. But then He rose again.

Unfortunately they sealed the tomb with a cryptographically-secure boulder this time and they've been waiting patiently in the dark for someone to decipher the pattern in the public keys so they can be released. (Obligatory disclaimer: this is a joke, do not go making a religion out of this.)

But was it military-grade encryption?
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