Questions tagged [encryption]
Questions related to the encryption in Ethereum
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Store encrypted data on-chain VS on cloud
So, I am currently doing research for a project and an interesting question was born. If I have data that I want to store encrypted, why to choose blockchain instead of a cloud provider? Since the ...
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What is the v part of transaction signature?
If I understand correctly when we send a transaction, we send an unsigned part m and a signature consisting of v, r, s. Each node verifies the signature by checking:
hash(m,r) * publicKey + r = s * ...
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Confidential data encryption on blockchain
I already built a supply chain that is able to collect product information on Ethereum. Now, that data can be confidential, but I still want to do Matrix calculations on it. I came across homomorphic ...
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Why is privateKey padded before secp256k1 signing?
I am checking how the Ethereum handles signing but I can't figure out why the math.PaddedBigBytes is necessary:
func Sign(digestHash []byte, prv *ecdsa.PrivateKey) (sig []byte, err error) {
if ...
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Is it possible to have multiple private keys for a single public address? [duplicate]
Since the ratio of all possible digits (please correct my math if I am wrong) of a public key versus private is:
1/79228162514264337593543950336
for public (40^16): 1 461 501 637 330 902 918 203 684 ...
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How can I encrypt a file using an ethereum public address and decrypt it with the private address?
The expected outcome is very simple:
Users will send their ERC20s to a smart contract. Depending on the amount, each user will get a file specifically created for them. I want to distribute that ...
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Data encryption
Since all data on the Blockchain is public. Presume I have multiple users submitting data which I want to hide, is there a way I can encrypt that data on the Blockchain ?
Or do I have to encrypt off-...
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Algorithm used for symmetric key encryption by quorum
What are the symmetric key encryption techniques used by the enclave in quorum to encrypt the payload? The documentation of quorum mentions that the enclave uses a symmetric key to encrypt the payload ...
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Asymmetric encryption with master Key
Is there any way i can derive private and public keypairs from a Master Key? The Master Key should be able to decrypt every encryption made with the generated Keypairs.
to explain a bit further i ...
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How to store and encrypt Keys?
I am developing chrome extension like metamask for the private Chain. I have generated the keys and using localStorage to store the Keys. But I am not sure whether I am going correct or not for ...
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Storing encrypted data and decrypt on-chain
The idea was to store the encrypted number of tokens,and when user was sending his private key, smart-contract would decrypt the data and perform an action of sending tokens to someone else. The catch ...
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Decrypt message on-chain
I want to store some data in smart contract and then decrypt it on chain. Pseudocode:
contract EncryptedData {
bytes data;
string public decryptedData;
constructor(bytes data_) public {
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How to encrypt a file with multiple public address?
Can I encrypt a file with multiple public address such that each of them can decrypt the file using their private keys?
Thus achieving a system to securely store file on IPFS which can be accessed by ...
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Assymetric encryption with only address
I would like to send an encrypted message to an address, without knowing their public key.
If I understand ECIES correctly, in order to send an encrypted ECIES message to a party, say Bob, I need to ...
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Encryption and Decryption when transmitting data
If I was sending data to a smart contract, do I need to encrypt it before transmitting and decrypt it in the smart contract? Or is this done automatically?
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Blockchain Smart Contract EHR
I'm trying to do a miny EHR(Electronical Health Record) with Smart Contracts where I have a Pacient Contract.
The problem is that in solidity everything is public, even the private variables, so I ...
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How to get decrypted transaction data in quorum?
On Quorum_Node1 I am sending a transaction with privateFor: parameter as follows:
eth.sendTransaction({from: eth.accounts[0], to: "0xca84356...9a3d0ccf92b8e",
data: web3.toHex('sample message for ...
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Offchain encryption in Ethereum dapp
Im wrting a dapp which holds / manages sensitive data which might need to be encrypted and decrypted and push again into chain.
I know it is not safe to encrypt data in smart contract,which is why Im ...
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Storing private data that will be decrypted by a smart contract
Another private data problem!
I would like to store some data in a Smart Contract, encrypted so nobody can see it upon some specific condition (time, or whatever).
For instance, after one year, this ...
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Encrypt data using public key
I have three data fields in a form which will return a string. I would like to hash the value of these three strings and store it in the blockchain. However the data in these three strings is ...
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How to encrypt a string with a smart-contract private-key and decrypt that offline
Say I want to make a smart contract that is able to save secret messages (strings). The messages should be stored only in encrypted form so no one can read them, but should be decrypt-able by a couple ...
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Is Data Stored on Ethereum encrypted or only RLP encoded?
Is Data Stored on Ethereum encrypted or only RLP encoded? If data is not encrypted, is there some way to secure and encrypt it using AES encryption algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) or XTS mode ...
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geth inter-node communication (devp2p/rlpx) encryption
I am currently analysing the encryption mechanisms used in geth.
Currently I have gathered the following information from the source code (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/p2p/rlpx....
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what encryption does myetherwallet use?
I am trying to use the encrypted ethereum private key created by myetherwallet within my application. Everytime I need to send money, I will input my password so that my application can decrypt it and ...
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Encryption with BIP39 specification secp256k1 keys?
We are making a system where users can share files with other people but nobody should be able to figure out that all these different files belongs to same user on blockchain.
these are the steps we ...
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How to use mnemonic to recovery my ethereum wallet
I use web3j to create my ethereum wallet.the Code just like down
import org.web3j.crypto.Bip39Wallet;
import org.web3j.crypto.Credentials;
import org.web3j.crypto.ECKeyPair;
import org.web3j.crypto....
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Understanding the UJO Smart Contract
I have trouble understanding the underlying mechanism for the UJO Music Portal, that helped Imogen Heap sell her album online. There is a smart contract that enables people to pay using ETH with ...
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In ethereum if i submit any data is it stored in encrypted format? [closed]
Does Blockchain perform encryption/decryption of data?How and where is data stored in ethereum case.
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Smart Contract - Storing 113+ byte buffer in solidity
So I am using the module (eth-ecies) in npm to perform encryption of a message offchain using the public key of my reciever, and in turn I get a 113+ byte buffer after the encryption is done. Now i ...
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RE-Encrypt file in IPFS
If I have an encrypted file in IPFS with a symmetric key that I share, can I after that decrypt and re-encrypt that file with a different key in order to revoke access?
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Potential attack
I have two computers, one of them is airgapped.
I had also two MEW private key, stored in the airgapped computer, I made a lot of transaction from the first private key to the second one.
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Private key recovering from both addresses + signed transaction?
Hello I have a problem.
I have two computers, one of them is airgapped
I have downloaded and runned Myetherwallet locally on an airgapped computer.
On the other computer I made the on line ...
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Is it possible to derive public key from ETH address?
Goal (not asking XY question):
send ETH to an address
web3.js script monitoring it and acting upon transaction
if msg.value > 0.1 ether then...
...encrypt a file with the public key of the msg....
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How to decrypt using Public Key
Can anyone decrypts cipher-text using Public Key? as I know we can only decrypt using private key, but in this RLPx documentation what this line means?
Receiver receives the initiator handshake and ...
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Privacy-preserving smart contracts: examples, tutorial, best practices?
I want to make a proof-of-concept about privacy-preserving smart contracts. I know it's uneconomical to use encryption with Ethereum smart contracts.
Are there best practices about how to do that?
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When creating an account with the Mist wallet, is the password a key for encrypting my wallet file or is it for something else?
In the book "Introducing Ethereum and Solidity", there is a paragraph that says:
"There is no Forgot Password functionality in the Ethereum network. That’s
because your password is only for this ...
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Could my private key could be reconstructed from just the ciphertext, salt and my password
Lets assume hypothetically that I have these all written down on paper somewhere. In comparison to the keystore, which I consider a JSON file that's too long, can I theoretically disregard all other ...
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A bit confused. How do I send ether using Web3j to an address (Android)
EDIT: I am using android platform
I think I'm a bit confused conceptually. I would appreciate it if someone could answer these few questions for me as I'm trying to make an app so that I can be ...
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How to encrypt a message using only the public key from web3.eth.sign?
I retrieve the public key of a users account using Web3 as follows:
web3.eth.sign(web3.eth.accounts[0], web3.sha3('test'), function (err, signature) {
var sigtest = signature
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Using smart contract to verify computation on encrypted data
I’m working on a project where all data is stored encrypted on a blockchain. There are some off-chain compute nodes that have the key to decrypt the data and perform some computation and return ...
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Can you use a smart contract to generate a symmetric key?
Let's say that I want to generate a key such that a user can use it and at the same time save the hashed key on the blockchain. My idea was to use a smart contract that could implement the Diffie-...
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What the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum private/public keys and address?
I am trying to find a library for creating Ethereum wallets in a web environment (PHP, JS). I found Keytheremjs lib, but if use it in a browser, this tool is very slow. But I found a lot of simple PHP ...
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How do you hide data on the blockchain? [duplicate]
I am designing a system where some data needs to be hidden and the idea is to store it in an encrypted file. How can you allow nodes to interact with it through a smart contract without revealing the ...
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Ethereum wallet v3 format
Can someone explain what exactly Ethereum wallet file (v3) contains, and how it works. How exactly public-private key pair is encrypted. Why two encryption algorithms are mentioned in the file (aes-...
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OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key
I'm trying to help a friend recover his password for an older format ethereum encrypted private key (EPK). My friend thinks he knows the password. My plan has been to use his best guess at the ...
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Smart Contract Encryption and Decryption so that only parties involved can read the content of Contract [duplicate]
I am trying to make a document sharing app after signing the NDA between 2 parties.
My Smart contract saves the address of involved parties as Sender(Party1 who makes the NDA) and recipient(Party2 ...
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Make a variable not-visible
I am trying to create a smart contract where people can send some data as string. This data must be not-visible/not-readable by anyone until a certain date(let's say one month from now)
Have I to set ...
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Access control of the external resource sold using a DApp?
I'm trying to create a smart contract in Solidity that the accounts can access the digital content only after paid some tokens.
For example, assuming Account 1 is a buyer and Account 2 is a seller. ...
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Storing and passing encrypted data to another owner
I've been thinking about this situation for quite a while and I wonder if there is a way to solve this on the public Ethereum blockchain.
User A stores some data on the blockchain, encrypted in some ...
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How to generate signature & validate signature offline w/o using web3
I just need a simple way to sign a message offline, preferably using Python or JavaScript.
I don't want to have to sign in using Web3. I just want my private key to be used from a variable in the code....
