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On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 10:44:58AM +0100, Thomas Voegtlin wrote:
> 
> >To be specific, we (in cooperation with / inspired by Timo Hanke)
> >developed method how to prove that the seed generated by Trezor
> >has been created using combination of computer-provided entropy
> >and device-provided entropy, without leaking full private
> >information to other computer, just because we want Trezor to be
> >blackbox-testable and fully deterministic (seed generation is
> >currently the only operation which uses any source of RNG).
> >
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. Here is how I understand how it works,
> please correct me if I'm wrong:
> 
> The user's computer picks a random number a, the Trezor picks a
> random number b.
> Trezor adds a and b in the secp256k1 group, and this creates a
> master private key k.
> Trezor sends the corresponding master public key K to the computer.
> Thus, the computer can check that K was derived from a, without knowing b.

No. You mean the computer would use B for this check? 
(k,K) could be rigged by Trezor, who computes b as k-a.

Timo

> This also allows the computer to check that any bitcoin address
> derived from K is derived from a, without leaking b. (and
> reciprocally)
> 
> However, it seems to me that this property will work only with bip32
> public derivations; if a private derivation is used, don't you need
> to know k?
> 
> 
> 

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Timo Hanke
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