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Ethereum Security Bug Bounty

• woah 12y ago
  Hard to read on my phone
• sarciszewski 12y ago
  > delivering stable protocols and secure software upon genesis block release > Elliptic curve (secp256k1, ECDSA) Isn't secp256k1 and ECDSA prone to implementation errors? Why not use EdDSA instead? :)
  • tptacek 12y ago
    Those are Bitcoin's primitives, right? Presumably, they're just doing what everyone else does.
    • sarciszewski 12y ago
      Sure, I just thought (based on the genesis block comment) that they were going to make their own. And, well, https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf Using the same primitives as everyone else is probably a conservative choice.
  • nullz 12y ago
    Relevant code if someone wants to audit: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/4df2e1ef5c20ebd7004a595de7e6a032699106ad/crypto/secp256k1/secp256k1/src/secp256k1.c https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/4df2e1ef5c20ebd...