[Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

Roy Badami roy at gnomon.org.uk
Mon Jan 13 20:01:05 UTC 2014


rOn Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:57:33PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> >
> > On further reflection, I'm not sure I understand this use case of the
> > payment protocol.  Since a PaymentRequest currently contains the
> > Outputs that specify the addresses to send to, reusing a
> > PaymentRequest like this without using stealth addresses implies
> > address reuse.
> 
> 
> Yes indeed ...... which is why we're talking about extending the protocol
> (in a future version! the first version isn't even out yet!).

Yes, sorry, I miscontrued the thread here and now see that your
message was exactly talking about using stealth addresses within the
payment protocol.

Sorry for the confusion.

roy





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