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Strilanctoday at 4:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

The best proposal I have heard for rescuing P2SH wallets after cryptographically relevant quantum computers exist is to require vulnerable wallets to precommit to transactions a day ahead of time. The precommitment doesn't reveal the public key. When the public key must be exposed as part of the actual transaction, an attacker cannot redirect the transaction for at least one day because they don't have a valid precommitment to point to yet.


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amlutotoday at 12:26 PM

That’s kind of adorable. Would you need to pay to record a commitment? If so, how? If not, what stops someone from DoSing the whole scheme?

warkdarriortoday at 4:28 AM

24-hour latency to make a payment? What is this, the 20th century?

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