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I have seen that reusing the same IOTA address for outgoing transactions is risky since the address could be compromised and, if for some reason, the address received some money again, everything ...
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I have made an open source airgapped device for signing bundles offline. A main purpose is to address the possiblity that the components we use to make our devices are already compromised before ...
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If I send multiple zero value transactions from address A, containing several messages to broker a deal, is it safe to (re)use that address later on for a payment (to settle the deal)?
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A reattach is defined as follows: Reattach: The process of reattaching a transaction is simply doing the proof of work and tip selection process to reattach the transaction to a different part of ...
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I am trying to send some iotas and this message keeps popping up. What am I doing wrong? How to find out which node to select in order to get transactions confirmed?
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This question might have risen out of not enough knowledge about the role of the Coordinator. But.. Due to its one-time nature, the security of funds in an address decreases rapidly if you sign ...
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Address reuse is currently being prevented by a list of all addresses which have already sent a transaction (previousEpochsSpentAddresses.txt) and this list is checked by the full node (or remote node)...
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When trying to send to a foreign address, I got the following error recently: How does my wallet know, that this address has already been used for sending? It's quite an old address, so I assume I don'...
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Each time we use an address, 50% of your private key is revealed at random. When 50% of the private key is revealed, a computer would have to do 2^256 computations to crack it, similar to the SHA-...
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Are there any Winternitz alternatives out there which on the one hand make quantum computer attacks hard and on the other hand don't mess with the ability to reuse an address? Or are these properties ...
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Is it possible to get IOTAs safely out of an address from which two or more transactions were made already? With safely I mean that there is no chance to get hacked if the third or later transaction ...
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It is well known that an address that was used to send IOTA (i.e. a transaction was signed with that addresses private key) should not be used a second time because security weakens exponentially with ...
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When pressing "Generate new address", under "Receive", in the light wallet are all your IOTAs moved to this new address? This is the scenario I am trying to grasp: Let's say you sent IOTAs twice from ...
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Essentially I have a seed that I want to get rid off so I generated a new one. I have two desktop wallets open on different computers (wallets "A" and "B"). Wallet A is using the old seed and Wallet B ...
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So it is stated an outgoing transaction from an address would reveal some of the private key. That's why we don't reuse an address. Technically address attaching is also a zero amount transaction. ...
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not sure if i understand it correctly, but to me it seems as if any address is invalidated after receiving one incoming transaction. If that is the case, is there a way to have a static, non-changing ...
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What Mechanism was used to Claim the at risk addresses? (from the September and October events) How Is it possible to move anothers address into an amalgamated foundation address?
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If an address was used more than once to spend, as was the case in the September claim, are addresses that were weakened for violating the Winternitz, One Time Signiture architecture of the tangle, ...
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If I have 3 addresses in my seed and each address received 10 IOTAs. I guess my wallet will show 30 IOTAs. Now I send 12 IOTAs to someone. How do I know which address will be empty, which will have 8 ...
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I just tried to send some IOTAs to a complete new adress in my desktop wallet. After the proof of work the Desktopwallet (2.5 4 - IRI 1.4.1.2) wrote a warning because of reusing an adress. Has this ...
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The answers to this question state that reusing the same address for spending several times seriously compromises my private key so that should never be done. However, isn't this exactly what is ...
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Imagine somebody injects two transactions d1 and d2 into the network that together represent a double-spend attempt. Having only incomplete information of all latest transactions in the network, I see ...
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As far as I understood: double-spending: is when you do a second outgoing transaction while another one is still in pending. (this is possible only with Android wallet, because the light wallet [...
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One of IOTAs main use cases is to provide a way for M2M (machine to machine) micro payments. Therefore services can be called by sending a transaction, including payload + funds, to a specific address....
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I have offered up one of my addresses to be used for donation purposes; I withdrew funds to a different address, and a now a third party has deposited funds to an address that has already been emptied ...
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I made a transaction from Android wallet to Exchange A of 10Gi. The transaction is in pending. I tried a few times to reattach, but the transaction is still in pending. I made a second transaction ...
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I have a receive address that I have given out to other people, both for payments and donations; After transferring the funds to a new address, someone has donated to the previous address. How can I ...
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Just pretend that I am the owner of 100 weather sensors. Do I have to create and handle 100 seeds? I think it would be easier to create 1 seed with 100 addresses and give one to each sensor. Than I ...
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Everyone knows that spending from an address multiple times is bad, because Winternitz OTS. But, what does that mean, exactly? What information is leaked in each signature, and how would an attacker ...
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Suppose I spend funds from an address, but then there's a software bug, or user error, or somebody sends IOTAs to that address afterward, and now I have a used address with a non-zero balance! What ...
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