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Re: Bitcoin address re-usage can lead to theft of private keys
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PostQuantumChain
on 07/07/2022, 09:19:19 UTC

 3. Quantum computers could extract private keys if these addresses are re used.
 

Quantum Computers could calculate your private key with Shor's after 1 transaction because you are revealing your public key in a transaction.
They even could attack it, while it's in the mempool and replace it with a higher fee. Bitcoin has to use quantum-resistant signatures in the future.
https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2022/pqc-candidates-to-be-standardized-and-round-4


Yes, there are some new kinds of attacks regarding the random nonce.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/615.pdf

Maybe you don't want to sign messages on edge devices with low entropy.