[HN Gopher] A Dive into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures ___________________________________________________________________ A Dive into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures Author : janandonly Score : 88 points Date : 2023-07-03 17:42 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (conduition.io) (TXT) w3m dump (conduition.io) | ForHackernews wrote: | Are they still trying to make fetch happen? | _nhynes wrote: | I was searching for implementations to get a more concrete idea | of the algorithm and came across | https://github.com/Yawning/secp256k1-voi which appears to be well | commented, robust, and oddly entertaining. It's got Schnorr, and | ECDSA for comparison. | | There's also a musig2 one by the same author. | userbinator wrote: | The most widely-used (but not widely-known) application of | Schnorr signatures may be in Microsoft's product keys. Of course | they used a much smaller private key than we'd think is normal | today, and as a result, I believe it's been cracked for | everything up to ~XP. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-03 23:00 UTC)