/bitcoin-encrypt

Toy for performing asymmetric encryption with ECIES with bitcoin addresses/keys.

Primary LanguagePython

bitcoin-encrypt

Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme implementation tailored for bitcoin. It should allow anyone to send messages that only the owner of a specific bitcoin address can read. The public key of the bitcoin address must be known. Either it must have appeared on the blockchain (through a spend, for example), or it can be derived from any signed message from the owner of the address.

This code is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only.

Algorithm

ECIES as described at Wikipedia using a variation of ANSI-X9.63-KDF that uses SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA-256 as the MAC. The symmetric encryption used is AES-256-CTR with a randomly generated 64-bit prefix.

Usage

Don't.

License

MIT License.