Posts tagged signatures

Today, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Chief Security Officer of Blockchain.info, started a fundraiser for Dorian Nakamoto, the guy who’s being harassed by the media due to Newsweek’s recent article about Satoshi Nakamoto. To prove that the message is not fake, Andreas signed the message with his public key. Since I’ve recently been playing with digital signatures, this seemed like a great chance to explore some more. Let’s try to to verify the message.

Security is really important when handling bitcoins. Hashes and signatures can help by verifying that you’re downloading what you think you’re downloading.

In this post, I briefly explain hashes and signatures, and then check the hash and signature of the MultiBit wallet program, essentially following the MultiBit tutorial on hashes and signatures. All examples are run in Windows 7 (64-bit).