Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and devices for increasing entropy of a blockchain using blinded outcome diversification
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Application No.: US16647111Application Date: 2018-09-11
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Publication No.: US11223608B2Publication Date: 2022-01-11
- Inventor: Silvia Bartolucci , Pauline Bernat , Daniel Joseph , Craig Steven Wright
- Applicant: nChain Holdings Limited
- Applicant Address: CH Zug
- Assignee: nChain Holdings Limited
- Current Assignee: nChain Holdings Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CH Zug
- Agency: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Priority: GB1714907 20170915
- International Application: PCT/IB2018/056906 WO 20180911
- International Announcement: WO2019/053583 WO 20190321
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/16

Abstract:
An implementation of the present application provides a computer—implemented method to increase the security of a blockchain—implemented transaction, the transaction including participation from a plurality of participating nodes, each participating node participating as a message originator, selector, and propagator. The method, implemented at a participating node, includes: receiving ciphertext from a prior node and determining whether the participating node is a selector node for said ciphertext received from the prior node. When the participating node is the selector node for said ciphertext, the method includes selecting a subset of said ciphertext, decrypting the selected subset of said ciphertext to provide opted ciphertext and transmitting said opted ciphertext to the next node. When the participating node is other than the selector node for said ciphertext, the method includes decrypting said ciphertext received from the prior node and transmitting the decrypted ciphertext to the next node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200280546A1 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INCREASING ENTROPY OF A BLOCKCHAIN USING BLINDED OUTCOME DIVERSIFICATION Public/Granted day:2020-09-03
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