ECC and blinding.

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 5:41 PM -0600 10/27/03, Neil Johnson wrote:

>Will ECC work with blinding (Chaum, Brands, etc.)  techniques?

I've heard serious people discuss it with a straight face, at least.

Chaumian blinding is simply big number multiplication, right?

And Chaum's double-spending detection is an M-of-N hash where M=N=2.

So doing that to an ECC message/public-key shouldn't be hard...

Cheers,
RAH

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