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Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information
by
ChuckOne
on 09/02/2014, 13:56:12 UTC
Also, could you look, at this message, not sure if you've seen it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5002245#msg5002245
I don't understand this code so I cannot change it. It is up to CfB and BCNext to decide if and when this should be fixed.

Only crypto audit will tell if it's a bug or not. Right now there is another way to fix unverifable signatures in Crypto.sign(). We can't use BloodyRookie's fix without a formal proof that this won't break Curve25519 security. Actually, if the fix gets rid of unverifable signatures completely then we shouldn't use it. It's a normal situation that sometimes we have to recompute signatures generated with EC-KCDSA.

It is a bug. Did you even read my post completely? You need only basic knowledge in algebra to understand it.
The EC-KCDSA signature algorith can fail sometimes that's why sign() returns a boolean value. But that happens very rarely and simply means v=(x-h)s = 0 mod q.
Maybe you should ask Doctor Evil Wink

Wink Good point.