Paper 2016/1184

Bitcoin Private Key Locked Transactions

Sergi Delgado-Segura, Cristina Pérez-Solà, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí, and Guillermo Navarro-Arribas

Abstract

Bitcoin smart contracts allow the development of new protocols on top of Bitcoin itself. This usually involves the definition of complex scripts, far beyond the requirement of a single signature. In this paper we introduce the concept of private key locked transactions, a novel type of transactions that allows the atomic verification of a given private key (belonging to an asymmetric key pair) during the script execution.

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Preprint.
Keywords
Bitcoinscripttransactionsprivate keysmart contracts
Contact author(s)
sdelgado @ deic uab cat
History
2016-12-30: revised
2016-12-30: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/1184
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/1184,
      author = {Sergi Delgado-Segura and Cristina Pérez-Solà and Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí and Guillermo Navarro-Arribas},
      title = {Bitcoin Private Key Locked Transactions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/1184},
      year = {2016},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1184}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1184}
}
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