<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2018-09-11&#xA;📝 Original message:On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 4:34 PM Erik Aronesty &lt;erik at q32.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; To answer points:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; - I switched to the medium article so that I could correct, edit and&#xA;&gt; improve things to make them more clear.&#xA;&gt; - I responded to feedback by modifying the protocol to make it work - not&#xA;&gt; by ignoring it.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;To this moment there remains no response at your post.&#xA;https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4973123.0&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m not sure how I am supposted to have figured out that you wrote a&#xA;somewhat different repost of it elsewhere...&#xA;&#xA;- An M-1 rogue-key attack would require the attacker would to either&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;   - attack the hash function to produce a predictable R based on a known&#xA;&gt; mesage&#xA;&gt;   - attack the DLP to influence x or k&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Neither attack gives any particular advantage to someone who has M-1 keys.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;You keep asserting this. It isn&#39;t true. Asserting it more does not make it&#xA;any more true.  I already explained how to attack this style of signature&#xA;(e.g. in the BCT thread).&#xA;&#xA;Set aside your &#39;interpolation&#39; for a moment, and imagine that you construct&#xA;a 2 of 2 signature by just adding the keys.  Your tell me your key, P1  and&#xA;then I tell you that my key P2 which I derived by computing -P1  + xG.   We&#xA;now compute P = P1 + P2 = P1 + -P1 + xG = xG ... and now in spite adding P1&#xA;with an unknown discrete log, I know the discrete log of P with respect to&#xA;G and I did not need to violate the standard DL security assumption to&#xA;achieve that.&#xA;&#xA;With the &#39;interpolation&#39; in effect the same attack applies but its&#xA;execution is somewhat more complex: instead of adding the negation of P1  I&#xA;must add a number of multiplicities of P1 (like P1*2, P1*3, P1*4...)&#xA;selected so that their interpolation coefficients add up to -1. Finding a&#xA;suitable subset requires solving a randomized modular subset sum problem&#xA;and Wagner&#39;s algorithm provides a computationally tractable solution to it.&#xA;&#xA;The potential of rogue keys applies to both the keys themselves and to the&#xA;nonces. There are several ways to prevent these attacks, the musig paper&#xA;describes a delinearization technique which doesn&#39;t require additional&#xA;interaction or communication.&#xA;&#xA;I haven&#39;t tested whether the R,s version is susceptible though.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;There is a perfect bijection between the two encodings which is easily&#xA;computable, so they&#39;re the same thing from an abstract security perspective.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20180911/6d4ebd71/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>