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Quantum computers can't find preimages of crypto hash functions, but potentially can recover private key if public key was disclosured. Your address is the hash
by dmantis 6y ago
Quantum computers can't find preimages of crypto hash functions, but potentially can recover private key if public key was disclosured. Your address is the hash of public key. When you reveal your address, you don't reveal your key. However, you do reveal your public key when making transfer from the address.
So if you change BTC address every time you receive a tx, you will reveal only obsolete public keys which point to empty addresses. Almost all self-hosted wallets do that by design, it's an official recommendation to wallet security and privacy for several reasons (this one is just one of them).
- mhils 6y agoIf you have this super powerful quantum computer, you can still front-run transactions.