Bitcoin gets its first working prototype of quantum-resistant wallet rescue tool
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CoinDesk — Osuntokun's prototype is designed to give those wallets a second way. Instead of proving ownership with a digital signature — the very mechanism a quantum attack would break and the emergency upgrade would disable — his system lets a user mathematically prove they were the one who originally created the wallet, using the secret "seed" that every Bitcoin wallet is generated from.
Crucially, the proof doesn't require revealing the seed itself, so using it to rescue one wallet doesn't compromise any others derived from the same seed. In effect, it replaces "I can sign this transaction" with "I can prove this wallet came from me."
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