Re: ECDSA attack

Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Mar 2023 13:32:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnunet.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Bernd,

I don't quite see that the attack applies, as our nonces are 
high-entropy *and* never attacker-controlled.

So my (brief) reading of the paper doesn't suggest that this kills 
GNS-ECDSA.

My 2 cents

Christian

On 3/7/23 11:29, Bernd Fix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> reading a recent paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/305) I wonder if 
> this has any impact on GNUnet - especially GNS, which uses ECDSA 
> signatures for PKEY-signed payloads. Do we need to phase out PKEYs and 
> replace them with EDKEYs in the future?
> 
> Cheers, Bernd.
>