Tim Ruffing

Author of 3 BIPs.

BIP 324: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol: Deployed. Introduces a new, encrypted way for Bitcoin nodes to talk to each other, so internet providers and passive observers cannot read or easily tamper with the traffic. It also slightly reduces bandwidth…
BIP 327: MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures: Deployed. Standardizes MuSig2, a scheme that lets several people jointly create a single signature that looks like an ordinary one-person Taproot signature. This makes shared-control wallets cheaper and more…
BIP 340: Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1: Deployed. Defines a standard for Schnorr signatures, a simpler and more flexible signing method than the ECDSA scheme Bitcoin originally used, on the same elliptic curve. Schnorr signatures are compact (64…