Timeline for Why are rangeproofs necessary?
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| Oct 26, 2021 at 2:34 | comment | added | jtgrassie | Why does anything use ECC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Rationale | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 2:31 | comment | added | needed athrowaway | Well okay, but then why does CT use ECC? | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 2:11 | comment | added | jtgrassie | "I didn't know that Monero doesn't use the traditional scheme" <- Monero does use the "traditional scheme". Confidential Transactions uses ECC, and thus the values used in the Pedersen commitments are scalars and elliptic curve points. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 2:03 | comment | added | needed athrowaway | Ah, that makes sense, I didn't know that Monero doesn't use the traditional scheme. That does bring up another question for me though, what's the reasoning for using the EC variant? I know that Monero of course makes use of ECC in other areas, but is there some benefit of using it here? | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 1:55 | vote | accept | needed athrowaway | ||
| Oct 26, 2021 at 1:49 | history | answered | jtgrassie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |