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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug in key.cpp
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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:12 AM, <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net> wrote:
> You are right there is a bug in there.
>
> But the value is not 25% I think. Tinker some more. :-)
>
>>
>> Afaict, 3 is a perfectly valid value, meaning 25% of sig-> key recoveries
>> would fail erroneously...
Values 2 and 3 are only needed in theory. They together shouldn't
occur more than once in 2**127 (when the signature value is between
the group size and the field size).
That said, this is indeed a bug.
--
Pieter
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