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Consider an option to support Elligator as option #88

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savely-krasovsky opened this issue Aug 15, 2019 · 4 comments
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Consider an option to support Elligator as option #88

savely-krasovsky opened this issue Aug 15, 2019 · 4 comments
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savely-krasovsky commented Aug 15, 2019

By using Elligator elliptic curve points became indistinguishable from random string. It's useful property in countries where government censorship evolves. It can be used pretty easily with Curve25519.

http://elligator.cr.yp.to/

@kigawas kigawas added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 16, 2019
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kigawas commented Aug 16, 2019

+-------------------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+
| 65 Bytes                      | 16 Bytes | 16 Bytes | == data size    |
+-------------------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+
| sender_pk (elligator)         | nonce    | tag      | encrypted_data  |
+-------------------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+

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kigawas commented Aug 16, 2019

def elligatorize(public_key: bytes, curve: Curve) -> bytes:
    pass

Need to implement it first

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kigawas commented Sep 9, 2019

https://fc14.ifca.ai/papers/fc14_submission_25.pdf

looks like fancier than elligator :)

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kigawas commented Jun 16, 2024

Finally there's an elligator for secp256k1

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/759.pdf

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