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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 13:56:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBgRn_hOVzTRwvtYaLEKmJR9Lfb-WDsA4eh9+FfAv9+Q5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP25N7W_MeZin_pyVQP5pC8bt5yqJzTXt_tN1P6kWb5i2w@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Pieter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 12:56 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 [this message]
2014-03-05 13:18   ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
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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