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Re:Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto by oleganza on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:05AM (#11618775)
Encrypting to a ECC public key will involve Diffie-Hellman process described above, plus extra data mixed in. So just D-H would be easier ;)
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Re:Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto by acqq on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:12AM (#11618799)
I like Atheros' solution better as it doesn't involve any new "constructing" (like "pick a scalar p") just using the existing tool with the public key.
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