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Re: New transaction malleability attack wave? Another stresstest?
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basil00
on 09/10/2015, 10:30:02 UTC
The is an easy rule-of-thumb to spot high-S signatures.  For example, the following sig is high-S
This test is not quite precise, so implementers of bitcoin software shouldn't implement the test this way. Smiley The threshold is not a power of two, so no tidy hex digit sniffing can be precise.

It was meant to be a "rule of thumb" for humans -- not a precise test.