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Eliminate or clarify references to "public" keys and address components #44

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daira opened this issue Apr 16, 2016 · 3 comments
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Eliminate or clarify references to "public" keys and address components #44

daira opened this issue Apr 16, 2016 · 3 comments
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daira commented Apr 16, 2016 •
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Addresses (and their components) are not inherently public. Limiting their distribution is a valid security decision, and important for anonymity in some use cases. The spec should use terminology that reflects this.
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ebfull commented Apr 16, 2016

Hm. Doesn't the spec already use the terminology "payment address" for this reason?

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Yes, but there are still some inappropriate uses of "public key". For example, in section 4.2 "Notes", it says: 'apk is a 32-byte authorization public key of the recipient.'

@daira daira changed the title Eliminate or clarify references to "public" keys and addresses Eliminate or clarify references to "public" keys and address components Apr 16, 2016
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daira commented Apr 18, 2016

#46

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Merge pull request #46 from zcash/zips44.keys-are-not-public.0
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Key terminology changes. Also remove some unused macros. fixes #44
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Rename of Issuance Keys (zcash#44)
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This performs a rename of the Issuance keys as follows:

- `imk : Issuance master key` is renamed to `isk: Issuance authorizing
key`
daira pushed a commit to daira/zips that referenced this issue Feb 7, 2024
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Rename of Issuance Keys (zcash#44)
de1235c 
This performs a rename of the Issuance keys as follows:

- `imk : Issuance master key` is renamed to `isk: Issuance authorizing
key`
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