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From: Tim Ruffing <crypto@timruffing•de>
To: Dustin Dettmer <dustinpaystaxes@gmail•com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
	Pieter Wuille <bitcoin-dev@wuille•net>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Overview of anti-covert-channel signing techniques
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:49:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c182227876c47f476000b0b54618dac73e45a03f.camel@timruffing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABLeJxQsse99aw35DxSDOyVTruFCgi0hmZntvgbYtPLSRGQ+xA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dustin,

That sounds interesting but I can't follow your email to be honest.

On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 07:38 -0700, Dustin Dettmer via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> This mitigates, I believe, all leak vectors besides k/R hacking and
> prechosen entropy.

Hm, so what vectors is this supposed to mitigate? Leaking through the
generated public keys? Anything else?

Here are a few questions:
 - What are you trying to achieve? You seem to describe how you get
from the setup to the goal in four steps but I don't understand what
the setup is or what the goal is. (What's a storage solution?)
 - "all SW being compromised" do you mean "SW and HW compromised"? Note
that SW and HW are parties in Pieter's writeup, not just abbreviations
for software and hardware. 
 - Where are the two stages? You mention four steps.
 - Where do you run the external software? On a second SW? Is this the
second stage?
 - Do you use unhardened derivation?
 - What's a k commitment?


Best,
Tim




  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 21:35 Pieter Wuille
2020-03-21 13:34 ` Tim Ruffing
2020-03-21 16:59   ` Russell O'Connor
2020-03-22  9:43     ` Tim Ruffing
2020-03-22 15:30       ` Russell O'Connor
2020-03-22 15:38         ` Tim Ruffing
2020-03-21 20:29   ` Marko Bencun
2020-03-23 14:38 ` Dustin Dettmer
2020-03-24  7:49   ` Tim Ruffing [this message]
2020-03-24 14:51     ` Dustin Dettmer

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