Public Key
Cryptography
8 references
The publicly shareable component of an asymmetric key pair. It is used to verify signatures or derive addresses, depending on the system.
Appears in 8 whitepaper sections
$BTC
Bitcoin
Transactions
...oin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify t...
Calculations
...hopes it will be too late.
The receiver generates a new key pair and gives the public key to the sender shortly before signing. This prevents the sender from preparing a...
References
...//www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf, 2002.
[^7]: R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and
Privacy, IEEE Computer ...
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Ethereum
Introduction and Existing Concepts
...toshi Nakamoto, combining established primitives for managing ownership through public key cryptography with a consensus algorithm for keeping track of who owns coins, kn...
Bitcoin As A State Transition System
...and an owner (defined by a 20-byte address which is essentially a cryptographic public key). A transaction contains one or more inputs, with each input containing a refer...
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Tether
$SOL
Solana
