From: Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:18:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B8414072-3C87-46BE-82DA-B372927300AA@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBgRn_hOVzTRwvtYaLEKmJR9Lfb-WDsA4eh9+FfAv9+Q5Q@mail.gmail.com>
> On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>> I am not currently aware of any efforts to make OpenSSL's secp256k1
>> implementation completely side channel free in all aspects. Also,
>> unfortunately many people have reimplemented ECDSA themselves and even if
>> OpenSSL gets fixed, the custom implementations probably won't.
>
> As far as I know, judging from the implementation, there is hardly any
> effort to try to prevent timing attacks.
>
Is it safe to assume that this is also true for your secp256k1 implementation?
jp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-05 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-05 12:49 Mike Hearn
2014-03-05 12:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-03-05 13:18 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman [this message]
2014-03-05 14:04 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-03-05 16:21 ` Kevin
2014-03-05 19:39 ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 19:51 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 20:32 ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 20:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-12 9:44 ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 22:17 ` James Hartig
2014-03-05 22:26 ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-06 7:02 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-03-08 19:34 ` Luke-Jr
2014-03-09 1:57 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 21:31 ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-05 21:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 22:14 ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-05 22:25 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-06 8:38 ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-06 10:00 ` Natanael
2014-03-25 13:39 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-25 13:50 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-03-08 19:29 ` Gustav Simonsson
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