From e1dda48955330056796178cbef6a4d989149e813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: claylock Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:40:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited ch08_signatures.adoc with Atlas code editor --- ch08_signatures.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/ch08_signatures.adoc b/ch08_signatures.adoc index 0e9fd4b2..a7154446 100644 --- a/ch08_signatures.adoc +++ b/ch08_signatures.adoc @@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ Bob waits to receive Alice's public nonce essential: Bob must only give Alice the challenge scalar after Alice has committed to her public nonce. +++++ +

The interactive identity protocol described here matches part of Claus Schnorr's original description, but it lacks two essential features we need for the decentralized Bitcoin network. The first of these is that @@ -464,6 +466,8 @@ disagreement with every other node that did authenticate it. That's not acceptable for a consensus system like Bitcoin. For Bitcoin to work, we need a protocol that doesn't require interaction between Alice and each node that wants to authenticate her. +

+++++ A simple technique, known as the Fiat-Shamir transform after its discoverers, can turn the schnorr interactive identity protocol