Re: Blog post explaining "What is Interledger?"

that it works with shared secrets instead of asymmetric crypto was news to
me.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:13 PM Giovanni P <fiatjaf@alhur.es> wrote:

> I think everybody knows what a hash is, but "preimage" is a little
> more advanced/obscure.
>
> "established cryptographic principles" is much more mumbo-jumbo than
> saying "hash".
>
> If the idea is to gather interest among developers and insiders it
> makes more sense to say more about how it works than to just drop
> magical words.
>
> Actually, I think even normal people are sick of hearing magical
> words: "oh, this works and does amazing stuff because cryptography!",
> there are thousands of claims like that everywhere and most are false,
> so actually saying Interledger is simple, it's not magic, you can
> understand it, it just happens to be clever with simple principles --
> that can have a lot of appeal.
>
> On 10/10/18, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
> > After reviewing the current protocol a spot,
> >
> > executionCondition UInt256 SHA-256 hash digest of the fulfillment that
> will
> > execute the transfer of value represented by this packet. Connectors MUST
> > NOT modify this field. The receiver must be able to fulfill this
> condition
> > to receive the money.
> >
> > maybe "Only the receiver can demonstrate knowledge of the secret,
> > previously shared with the sender, that allows all stages of the
> > transaction to complete."
> >
> > I didn't notice while reading the article that it says anywhere that the
> > receiver has to somehow share a per-transaction secret with the sender,
> > before the sender invokes ILP.
> >
>


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