Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Atomic cross-chain swaps using equivalent secret values
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Application No.: US16277813Application Date: 2019-02-15
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Publication No.: US11310060B1Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Andrew Poelstra , Jonas Nick
- Applicant: Blockstream Corporation
- Applicant Address: CA Montreal
- Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
- Current Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: CA Montreal
- Agency: Dergosits & Noah LLP
- Agent Todd A. Noah
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; H04L9/30 ; H04L9/06

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for using equivalent secret values across different elliptic curves. For example, a transferring party may wish to exchange a first asset on a first blockchain with a recipient for a second asset on a second blockchain. After exchanging sets of public keys with a recipient, a transferring party may generate a zero-knowledge proof and public keys associated with a selected bitstring. The recipient may then verify the proof, which shows that private keys associated with the public keys associated with the bitstring are both derived from the bitstring without revealing the bitstring itself. Once validity of the private keys has been established, the transferring party may publish a second signature to claim the second asset. The published second signature may then be used to publish a first signature (generated using the selected bitstring) on the first blockchain to claim the first asset.
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