How stealth addresses work in Monero
2 points by azhenley
2 points by azhenley
AI-generated website, likely for "SEO" purposes.
This is absolutely not how Monero addresses work (and Monero does not have a concept of "stealth addresses".) Monero is one of the few examples where the documentation of the current cryptography and protocol is very complete via the Zero to Monero book. Addresses are explained in Chapter 4, but it is best to read everything that comes before as it builds progressively to that point.
I do believe it to be an interesting read even if you don't care for cryptocurrency, as the way they try to reconcile privacy and cryptography leads to interesting designs (the privacy model they have is very different than for standard cryptography after all!)
John Cook has published articles in this style almost daily since 2008. He may be wrong, but he isn't using AI to write anything.
(As far as I can tell, he treats his blog as a literal log of all his ideas and TILs.)
Came here to say this. John Cook has been writing like this for a long long time. He has been on my feed reader for years and this was one of many many posts he writes. It is ludicrous to call it AI written when there is absolutely nothing to suggest it is. It is even more ludicrous to call the whole website AI-generated, a website I've known and been following since days when ChatGPT didn't exist!
I don’t follow crypto, but a quick search on monero’s site does in fact turn up stealth addresses.
Stealth addresses are an important part of Monero's inherent privacy. They allow and require the sender to create random one-time addresses for every transaction on behalf of the recipient.
Which seems awfully consistent with John’s article. Further, a stealth address is not a fantastic leap from the one-time address description in chapter 4 of the book you’ve linked to. Admittedly, mine is a low-effort response to what I view as an already less-than-well-thought-out comment, but Diffie Hellman and ECDH are shotgunned through your linked monero book - I’m leaning towards the article not being slop. John’s been posting good stuff for a while. This one’s a little more superficial than most stuff I’ve read on his site, but I see it as just that, and probably not ai-generated.