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Re: Can two signatures be identical?
by
waxwing
on 06/05/2016, 11:47:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (3)
Just to be clear, that's in addition to having the same message and private key,  right?

reusal of address(privkey) and the random parameter k can cause trouble

Can you explain this more?
What kind of trouble?

Reusing the same nonce value (hence same k value) on two different signatures (ie. different messages) signed with the same private key, leaks the private key. This has happened in Bitcoin due to bad nonce generation code, and quite a few times, and has led to loss of funds.

The wikipedia page on ECDSA explains the algebra; it's a very simple calculation to do.