This is a clearly a bit off-topic however I think its important to reassure the community how security considerations are problematic to resolve fully without a deep understanding of the issues in a clear meaningful way. This white paper by Stephan Verbücheln (see below) which elaborates on the YY97 whitepaper was passed to me only the other day which kind of shifts my focus, for the moment on to the way which I have implemented ECDSA (Elliptical-curve DSA) mechanisms for the platform. Without giving the specifics about how exactly I based the cyphers to form the crypto algorithms for the platform away in great detail.
Finding a method to provide a fairly low computationally reliable method to resolve the proof stage by using "off-the shelf" tools/utilities/libraries and not a pure custom ASM based approach has now been brought into doubt. I am revisiting some of my past decisions surrounding the security for the processes within crucial components/portions of the code to see how this can be adapted or modified fairly quickly.
This may sound over the top or even paranoid, however the consequences of the presence of anomalies could produce an inherent flaw in the overall security profile for the platform will could be exploited and prove devastating, there are several freely available methods to resolve this "blip/concern" and is something which I believe you should all take a look at and understand the possible ramifications when interacting on the BC. A understanding even in simplistic terms how vulnerable some otherwise seemingly secure systems can be.
If it can be exploited it will be exploited which is just the reason why off the shelf libraries and code bases must always be scrutinized before implementation and not just take for granted that because its a almost standard toolset (take openssl as an example) then it will work flawlessly. This is just not always the case and is why I am taking matters of this nature slightly more seriously.
https://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~verbuech/klepto-ecdsa/klepto-ecdsa.pdfBack on topic..
Oh yeah, did someone say the 2 month VIP competition for AltcoinFoundation was bullshit or something like that ?? humm...
@murderouskirk: If nobody has had a moment to fix the Auto-inviter for slack I will take a peek when i have a moment. Please ping to remind me to take a look, thanks
--Majika