encrypt/decrypt message function - lacking documentation/specs
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firstoff, thanks for your hard work! i love it!
the encrypt/decrypt message function is quite nice and underrated.
i find nothing about it in the documentation except for command-line usage.
i could find out, that it is using ECIES with the bitcoin keypair.
is there an easy compatible web-based implementation of this?
this would be very useful
i found a ECIES web implementation ( https://web.archive.org/web/20160210174934/http://memwallet.info/btcmssgs.html ) but its encryption differs from Electrum's.
is there a html/js based ECIES encrypt/decrypt implementation similar to the link above, which is compatible with Electrum's encrypt/decrypt?
THANKS A LOT!
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Research direction
Start by locating Electrum's encrypt/decrypt message function and the existing command-line documentation. Compare its ECIES behavior with the linked web implementation to determine what compatibility details would need to be specified. Done would mean a settled specification and corresponding documentation, or a clearly scoped compatible HTML/JS implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, python
- Domain
- cryptography, documentation, web-dev
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100