Author: German Luna 2020-04-23 18:40:06
Published on: 2020-04-23T18:40:06+00:00
The conversation is between two individuals, Germán and ZmnSCPxj, discussing atomic swaps within the same chain in a traceless way. The proposed solution involves using a suitably chosen Schnorr signature instead of the secret 't'. When one counterparty claims their side of the funds, they can obtain the signature they're missing to claim the funds in the (Schnorr) multisig that pays them. This would appear like two independent transactions on-chain, even though effectively the two parties have “exchanged” the history attached to the UTXOs. Unlike a mixing service, where all of the histories get merged, with this protocol histories can be pairwise swapped without anybody's knowledge. Alice and Bob, holding funds at UTXO1 (controlled by Alice) and UTXO2 (controlled by Bob), wish to swap them. Alice provides Bob with a single public key P_A, and Bob provides Alice two pubkeys P_B1 and P_B2. Bob and Alice construct the P2PKH addresses Addr1 = Hash(P_A+P_B1) [where the UTXO1 funds will be sent to eventually] and Addr2 = Hash(P_A+P_B2) [where the UTXO2 funds will be sent to eventually]. Bob and Alice exchange time-locked refund transactions for the funding transactions sending the funds to Addr1 and Addr2. Bob and Alice submit the funding transactions (Alice pays to Addr1 from UTXO1; Bob pays to Addr2 from UTXO2). Alice sends Bob an adaptor signature: r1 + H(r1 | m)*x_a + r2 + H( r2| m')*x_a. Bob verifies the adaptor signature Alice sent contains a valid signature for spending from Addr1 AND another valid signature for spending from Addr2. Both signatures from Alice. Bob cannot separate out the two signatures and hence cannot claim any of the funds, provided H( r1 | m) != H(r2 | m') in the signature commitment. Bob now sends Alice the valid signature: r2 + H(r2 | m' )*x_b2. Alice can now add her signature to Bob's and get: r2 + H(r2| m' )*(x_b2 + x_a) which is a valid signature to spend the funding transaction sent to Addr2. Finally, Bob sees Alice claims the fund sent to Addr2 and uses that signature to subtract his own: r2 + H(r2 | m' )*(x_b2 + x_a) - (r2 + H(r2 | m' )*x_b2) = H( r2 | m ')*x_a. Bob takes the original adaptor signature and subtracts the known quantity r2+ H( r2 | m' )*x_a, to get a valid signature: r1 + H( r1 | m )*x_a. Bob can now add to that valid signature, his own signature and retrieve the funds. It is possible for the counterparty to store copies of the signatures as proof that such a join has taken place. But plausible deniability is available upon discarding signatures since the joint private keys (x_a + x_b*) are unavailable. Germán suggests tackling the problem of value-based correlations by modeling the solution after the equal-sum-subset problem (NP-complete problem).
Updated on: 2023-06-14T00:55:11.309069+00:00