From: Tim Ruffing <crypto@timruffing•de>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Schnorr signatures BIP
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 23:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e620d305c86f65cbff44b5fba548dc85c118f84.camel@timruffing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBj7f+=OYXuOMdNeJk3NBG67FSQSF8Xv3seFCvwxCWq69A@mail.gmail.com>
Is it intentional that the encoding of public (and private) keys is
unspecified? I'd consider at least the encoding of the public key to be
part of the signature scheme, so ideally it should be specified already
in this BIP. On the other hand, there may be good arguments against it,
but I'm not aware of any.
This issue leads to a discrepancy between the specification and the
test vectors because the data fields of test vectors "are given as byte
arrays", including public and secret key. As a consequence, even the
Python reference implementation in the BIP draft doesn't work on test
vectors (in a strict sense).
Best,
Tim
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 11:08 -0700, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here is a proposed BIP for 64-byte elliptic curve Schnorr signatures,
> over the same curve as is currently used in ECDSA:
> https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-schnorr.mediawiki
>
> It is simply a draft specification of the signature scheme itself. It
> does not concern consensus rules, aggregation, or any other
> integration into Bitcoin - those things are left for other proposals,
> which can refer to this scheme if desirable. Standardizing the
> signature scheme is a first step towards that, and as it may be
> useful
> in other contexts to have a common Schnorr scheme available, it is
> its
> own informational BIP.
>
> If accepted, we'll work on more production-ready reference
> implementations and tests.
>
> This is joint work with several people listed in the document.
>
> Cheers,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-06 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-06 18:08 Pieter Wuille
2018-07-06 21:05 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-07-06 22:00 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-07-06 22:01 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-07-08 14:36 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-07-14 15:42 ` Sjors Provoost
2018-07-14 21:20 ` Pieter Wuille
2018-08-04 12:22 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-08-05 14:33 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-08-06 8:39 ` Anthony Towns
2018-08-06 14:00 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-08-06 21:12 ` Tim Ruffing [this message]
2018-08-12 16:37 ` Andrew Poelstra
2018-08-29 12:09 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-03 0:05 ` Andrew Poelstra
2018-09-05 12:26 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-05 13:05 ` Andrew Poelstra
2018-09-05 13:14 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-05 15:35 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-09-11 16:34 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-11 17:00 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-09-11 17:20 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-11 17:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-09-11 17:37 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-11 17:51 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-09-11 18:30 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-13 18:46 ` Andrew Poelstra
2018-09-13 20:20 ` Erik Aronesty
2018-09-14 14:38 ` Andrew Poelstra
2018-09-20 21:12 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-07-07 2:47 Артём Литвинович
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