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Re: How to prove to someone that an Bitcoin address (or UTXO) belongs to you?
by
bob123
on 27/05/2019, 08:05:12 UTC
[...]  in order to prevent from a birthday paradox attack on the signature.

A birthday attack is applicable to hash functions, not encryption or signatures.

Further, with the birthday paradox you would calculate the probability of creating 2 messages which result in the same hash (any random hash!).
Not a second message with the same (given) hash which the signed one has.


This is not applicable in this case. Neither theoretical nor practical.