Questions tagged [schnorr-signatures]
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Why Schnorr was added to secp256k1 library instead of a separate library?
Schnorr signatures are often compared as superior to the Elliptic Curve ones. Then why developers added Schnorr into libsecp256k1 library which is, as the name suggests, an Elliptic Curve library?
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Why is adding s values in half aggregation insecure?
Jonas Nick an Tim Ruffing discussed in a presentation that summing up the s values in signature half aggregation would be insecure (without giving the reason)
They presented a secure solution which ...
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Why is full blockwide signature aggregation of schnorr signatures non-interactive?
I can only think of the MuSig paper describing how Rouge attacks are prevented by also committing to the public key of all signers. But as far as I understand the case of multisig is not the same as ...
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Why does blockwide signature aggregation prevent adaptor signatures?
In a recent video about half signatures, Jonas Nick mentions that blockwide signature aggregation interferes with adaptor signatures and offering atomic swaps (I guess via PTLCs).
I am confused about ...
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Retweaking other person's or my own taproot address
Suppose I get a taproot address=schnorr public key from an exchange that is not tweaked using mast merkle root and I wish to tweak that public key.
This will yield a potentially different public key.
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Are the witnesses segregated with Schnorr signatures?
SegWit fixed transaction malleability by just moving the signature out of the block of data that's being hashed to form the transaction id.
However, Schnorr does not suffer from signature malleability ...
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Possible number of signers with MuSig
With multisig, up to 20 signatures may be used in a threshold signature scheme (What are the limits of m and n in m-of-n multisig addresses?).
As far as I understand, there should be no hard-coded ...
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Is ECDSA signing supported from within a Taproot tree or must all signing be Schnorr?
Let's say a server is set up to do ECDSA signing and you want to include the requirement to provide a ECDSA signature within your Taproot tree (script path). Is this supported?
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Taproot, potential quantum bug, and general clarification
Here seeking information. I have 2 questions marked with parens
Would like some clarification pertaining to the Mark Friedenbach article:
Why I'm Against Taproot
The point of contention with Mark ...
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What is the difference between key aggregation and signature aggregation?
What is the difference between key aggregation (e.g. MuSig) and signature aggregation?
Many people (including myself) have in the past used these terms interchangeably. Why is it important to be ...
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1 of n Multisig Scriptless Scripts?
I know MuSig makes n of n multisig scriptless. However, can we also aggregate multiple internal public keys in one public key, and unlock funds using either one of the internal public keys?
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Why is Public Key aggregation in MuSig described as a product of the public keys?
In the the MuSig2 paper, it is described that:
Each signer randomly generates and communicates to others a nonce
Ri=g^ri; then, each of them computes R=∏ni=1Ri,c=H( ̃X,R,m)where
̃X=∏ni=1Xiis the ...
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In MuSig-DN why not use a truly random number for the nonce instead of a pseudorandom function?
In MuSig-DN why not use a truly random number for the nonce instead of a pseudorandom function (PRF)? If the nonce space is big enough it would never be reused.
This question was asked by emzy on ...
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What makes cross input signature aggregation complicated to implement?
What makes cross input signature aggregation complicated to implement? Other than for design space reasons why didn't it make it into BIP-Taproot? (Key aggregation within one input can be achieved ...
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How do I tweak the bip340_test_vectors to check that signature verification fails for other test vectors?
I now understand why some of the bip340_test_vectors fail signature verification.
I would like to tweak these test vectors to check that signature verification fails for other test vectors. How do I ...
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I'm digging further into the open Taproot PR. Can you explain the bip340_test_vectors?
I'm digging further into the open Taproot PR. I found these bip340_test_vectors.
They have secret keys, public keys, aux_rand (auxiliary randomness), message, signature and whether the signature ...
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Who will the first adopters of Taproot be (assuming it is activated at some stage)? What incentives are there to start using it straight away?
Adoption of SegWit by users and companies after it was activated was slow. Should we expect adoption of Taproot to be slow also (assuming it is activated at some stage)?
Who will the first adopters of ...
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Two threats to Bitcoin: Quantum Computing and Mining farm seizures - what new BIPs are needed before it is too late? [closed]
How resistant is bitcoin blockchain against physical attacks? Contrary to other consensus mechanisms, Bitcoin's PoW model is dependent on massive Mining Farms with tons of ASIIC hardware. These farms ...
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Which MuSig scheme is optimal? Classic MuSig or this new MuSig-DN scheme?
Now we have two competing MuSig schemes which is better? Classic MuSig or MuSig-DN? Which use case(s) might choose classic MuSig over MuSig-DN and vice versa?
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What are “leaf versions” in Taproot?
What are "leaf versions", when do you upgrade a version, how many versions are there and how do they differ from segwit versions?
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Is there already reached consensus on network upgrades like Taproot, Submarine Swaps?
I have read about some very interesting new protocol amendments. I am not asking for their explanations, but would be great if anyone explained their current status, if they are still considered to ...
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Schnorr without R in the challenge
I read the Schnorr and MuSig papers and stumbled over the problem that the use of deterministic nonces in multisignatures is not safe. The adversary would be able to extract the private key from the ...
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What are some interesting applications of Taproot “smart contracts”?
From a strictly technical perspective, MAST makes a lot of sense. However, understanding it in the context of Taproot/Tapscript does require prior knowledge in Merkle Trees and hash functions.
What ...
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k selection for Schnorr signatures
So i was reading the BIP for Schnorr signatures and I couldn't find any explanation on why the simple RFC6979 Variant wasn't chosen for their nonce generation. Instead, they decided to go with their ...
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Is Z-man's PTLC construction implementable using libsecp256k1-zkp?
In a mailing list post Z-man details a PTLC construction which he claims is "is almost entirely a MuSig ritual". My question is whether this MusigTweak is what is called the adaptor (last argument of ...
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Could Taproot create larger security risks or even hinder future protocol adjustments re Quantum threats?
I am quoting here a user named "blk014" who responded to Pieter's Taproot tweets from 24JAN. I find this user's comments very interesting and would like to ask a developer expert how much of a ...
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Will g'root be included in the Taproot soft-fork?
G'root, which I understands as generalised Taproot, was announced a year and a half ago. I'm wondering what the development is on it and if it is part of the taproot softfork.
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Musig Signature Interactivity
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Why is Musig signing always interactive?
Let's say I have a Musig wallet where keys are stored in secure locations with no internet access. What are some methods to sign from these ...
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Would a Schnorr PubKey be a different length than a Taproot PubKey like P2WPKH and P2WSH?
A P2WPKH PubKey is shorter than a P2WSH PubKey. Would this also be the case that a Taproot PubKey is larger than a Schnorr PubKey?
If so, wouldn't people be incentivised to use the Schnorr PubKey and ...
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how difficult is it to generating an ECDSA (or Schnorr) signature with a certain number of leading zeros?
If both the public key and the private key are known ahead of time (public knowledge), and the goal is to choose a message/nonce that generates a signature with, for example, a certain number of ...
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Will Schnorr Multi-signatures completely replace ECDSA?
I stumbled upon the fact that schnorr signatures will most probably replace the current ECDSA system in a future BIP.
Is it worth learning about ECDSA or this will become obsolete/useless/confusing ...
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bip-schnorr and HD Key Derivation
Is it safe to use HD Key Derivation with bip-schnorr? The bip mentions that you should not throw away the first byte of a generated key.
It is important to not mix up the 32-byte bip-schnorr public ...
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Why is no security lost by using 32-byte public keys in Schnorr signatures instead of 33?
There is currently a discussion on the mailing list about truncating the 33rd byte from public keys when used in bip-schnorr.
Public keys are (x, y) coordinates and compressed public keys simply ...
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Why do aggregate Schnorr signatures reverse the hash and the random number
A bitcoin signature has:
z = hash(m)
Using a private key pk we can generate a signature for message m
consisting of two numbers: r (x coordinate of the random point R =
k×G) and s = (z+r⋅pk)/k. Then, ...
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Is it cryptographically possible to have aggregate signature schemes that can improve privacy in UTXO consolidation?
My understanding of Schnorr signatures, Taproot and Graftroot and how they improve privacy in smart contracts / multi-sig is by allowing users to aggregate signatures so the individual signatures and ...
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What are the limitations for amortizing the interactive session setup of MuSig?
I'm trying to find a way to amortize the interactive session setup in the MuSig signature aggregation scheme. My motivation is to use signature aggregation between devices communicating using low ...
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Is the BCH version of Schnorr signatures compatible with taproot?
BCH is going to introduce support for Schnorr signatures on May 15th. One of the most anticipated features for Schnorr signatures on Bitcoin is the introduction of taproot constructions. Will it be ...
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Schnorr Fiat Shamir Transformation
In the Schnorr identity protocol, we can transform the interactive ZKP into a non-interactive one by replacing the role of the verifier (i.e. providing a random challenge value) with a hash function ...
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What is the current Status of major proposed BTC upgrades like Taproot, MAST, Submarine Swaps?
I have read during the last year about some very interesting BIPs or initiatives. I am not asking for their explanations, just would be great if anyone would know about their simple status as of now, ...
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How could Schnorr signatures be aggregated across the whole transaction?
I am studying the MuSig protocol and am having trouble grasping certain segments. This is my understanding thus far:
In current Bitcoin CHECKMULTISIG format, the size of the signature grows linearly ...
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The order of the generator point G used in bitcoin
Hi I was just wondering how the order of the generator point G used in bitcoin was actually calculated.
From the specification listed http://www.secg.org/SEC2-Ver-1.0.pdf for secp256k1 I can see ...
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When Schnorr signatures are part of Bitcoin will it be possible validate each block with only one signature validation?
In a recent talk Pieter Wuille talked about speed up verification when using Schnorr signatures and various algorithms for verifying multiple signatures.
Would it really be possible to verify one ...
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Why is the Schnorr verification formula working and actually verifying the validity of a signature?
Reading the bottom of page 2 of the Musig Paper we can find that a Schnorr Signature for a cyclic Group G of prime order p with generator g is a tuple (R,s) where
R = gr for a random secret r and
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Does a blockchain become opaque if it enable's schnorr-signatures, and require trust in the code?
When you sign a transaction with schnorr-signatures, it does not include the pubkey in the transaction data.
1)Does this mean the input addresses become unknown, aka creating a opaque blockchain ? ...
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Are sipa's standardized schnorr signatures incompatible with blind signatures?
Here, sipa proposes a standardization of schnorr signatures: https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-schnorr.mediawiki
For example, sign() returns Sig{R,s} which can be encoded with 64 ...
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Would signature aggregation reduce the largest feasible blocksize
If a Schnorr signature aggregation scheme were to be integrated into Bitcoin. Would the reduction in witness data versus non witness data (need less bytes for a signature therefore witness data usage ...
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How are scriptless scripts and taproot different?
I recently read Aaron van Wirdum's layman explanation of both scriptless scripts and taproot. I gather that both utilize the aggregation of Schnorr signatures to hide complex scripts (smart contracts) ...
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Will a Schnorr soft-fork introduce a new address format (i.e. not bech32)
When we (hopefully) soft-fork to Schnorr signatures will the address be indistinguishable from bech32 addresses?
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Can R/r in Musig be derived from only seeds and message hashes?
I am wondering if the first two roundtrips of pre-committing and then revealing R/r in MuSig signing can be moved to the keygen phase and made deterministic. That reduces the amount of messages that ...
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Schnorr batch validation speed statistics
In this question Schnorr vs ECDSA I see in the Peter Wuille's answer the following comment about Schnorr signature batch validation: "Improving verification speed, by supporting batch validation of ...
