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ECDSA Signatures Can Be Cracked With One Good Signature and One Bad One

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I have been reading an excellent paper [1] and it outlines the usage of the fault attack on ECDSA signatures. With this we just need one good signature and a bad one, and where a signer has signed the same message, with the same nonce, and with the same private key. It is another worrying attack on ECDSA [2]:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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