SECIO: shared secret is just the X coordinate of scalar mult

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Closed Nashatyrev closed 3 years ago

Nashatyrev commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/secio#shared-secret-generation Scalar multiplication result is the EC point (X,Y). The share secret is derived from it by taking just X coordinate

mxinden commented 3 years ago

Closing here as SECIO has been deprecated.