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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pieter Wuille
a81cd96805 Only create signatures with even S, and verification mode to check.
To fix a minor malleability found by Sergio Lerner (reported here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8392.msg1245898#msg1245898)

The problem is that if (R,S) is a valid ECDSA signature for a given
message and public key, (R,-S) is also valid. Modulo N (the order
of the secp256k1 curve), this means that both (R,S) and (R,N-S) are
valid. Given that N is odd, S and N-S have a different lowest bit.
We solve the problem by forcing signatures to have an even S value,
excluding one of the alternatives.

This commit just changes the signing code to always produce even S
values, and adds a verification mode to check it. This code is not
enabled anywhere yet. Existing tests in key_tests.cpp verify that
the produced signatures are still valid.
2013-08-16 00:17:50 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
58bc86e37f Check for canonical public keys and signatures
Only enabled inside tests for now.
2012-09-21 01:24:25 +02:00