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The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces
June 6, 2023, 9:43 a.m. |
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ePrint Report: The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces
Dylan Rowe, Joachim Breitner, Nadia Heninger
We report on a new class of ECDSA signature vulnerability observed in the wild on the Bitcoin blockchain that results from a signature nonce generated by concatenating half of the bits of the message hash together with half of the bits of the secret signing key. We give a lattice-based attack for efficiently recovering the secret key from a single signature of this …
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