From 3664a80bba869c5bbf599ef9a37d52f37cdf6bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Kiss Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:46:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] This doesn't seem like a trivial operation to me (ie. it can't reasonably be done by humans on paper). --- ch04.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch04.asciidoc b/ch04.asciidoc index 6abd6882..ae7538b6 100644 --- a/ch04.asciidoc +++ b/ch04.asciidoc @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ When spending bitcoins, the current bitcoin owner presents their public key and [TIP] ==== -In most implementations, the private and public keys are stored together as a _key pair_ for convenience. However, it is trivial to reproduce the public key if one has the private key, so storing only the private key is also possible. +In most implementations, the private and public keys are stored together as a _key pair_ for convenience. However, the public key can be calculated from the private key, so it's possible to storing only the private key. ==== ==== Private and Public Keys