Schnorr signatures

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Schnorr signatures is one of my most unique topics that I am going to share with all of you so I would start from its basics and then I will move forward.

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Schnorr signatures is one of the most significant scheme that is used in cryptography for giving more authenticity and reality of digital messages so in this way your data remain more integral. You can imagine that if you want to send any message to anybody but you also want to make sure that message which you are sending to somebody has not been tempered during its transmission and transfer to that person so in that case you can implement schnorr signatures.

By the use of your private key you can sign your messages with schnorr signatures so this is one of the most secret information that only remain confined to you and when I talk about signature then it is just like digital fingerprint that would be helpful in the identification of you as a centre and then next anybody who would you receive your messages would feel very easy to verify signature by the use of your public key that is available to everybody as it is public and is indicated from its name also.

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Hidden beauty of schnorr signatures is that it verifies authenticity of your messages without without disclosing your private key. So if there is someone who intercepts your messages then he would not be able to forge any kind of valid signature if he would not have any access to your private key.

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Schnorr signatures working process is very easy and not complex and it is important to understand that's why I am breaking it down into the simple steps for all of you.

Key Generation

First step is of key generation in which there would be pair of keys generate and it includes private key of yours and public key for everyone so from my words it is clear that private key would be just for you while public key you are allowed to share with anyone.

Signature Generation

For computing a signature and for generation a signature you would use your private key when you would sign a message and when I talk about signature then it would be mathematical representation of your message.

Signature Verification

When I talk about verification of signature then the recipient who would receive your message would use your public key your message and signature and by performing some of the mathematical calculations everyone can determine validity of signature.

There are some advantages which are associating with the signatures and one of the most significant advantage is its efficiency because it requires very little computational resources as compared to other signature scheme so in this way to be comes very fast and practical to do many tasks with it that's why it is more in use in real world applications in different areas.

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There are some security properties also associated with these signatures that make them more desirable so if I given example then they are secure under some particular assumptions so it means that mathematically it has been proved that it is secure within a particular framework.

That was all about my explanation about schnorr signatures that what is this basically and I have also told about its working and not only this I have explained some of the benefits associated with it that's why it is also gaining much attention with the passage of time and it has been adopted by various blockchains and most significantly one of the most important blockchain Bitcoin. All that things that are making it more integral and authentic are their efficiency and security properties.

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