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"value": "Daniel Bleichenbacher"
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"value": "Subheader (https://github.com/Subheader)"
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"value": "<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of '<tt>k</tt>' (as computed based on step 3.2 of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979\">RFC 6979</a>) has leading zeros and is susceptible to cryptanalysis, which can lead to secret key exposure. This happens, because the byte-length of '<tt>k</tt>' is incorrectly computed, resulting in its getting truncated during the computation. Legitimate transactions or communications will be broken as a result.&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Furthermore, due to the nature of the fault, attackers could–under certain conditions–derive the secret key, if they could get their hands on both a faulty signature generated by a vulnerable version of Elliptic and a correct signature for the same inputs.</span><br><br></span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">This issue affects all known versions of Elliptic (at the time of writing, versions less than or equal to 6.6.1).</span><br>"
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"value": "The ECDSA implementation of the Elliptic package generates incorrect signatures if an interim value of 'k' (as computed based on step 3.2 of RFC 6979 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979 ) has leading zeros and is susceptible to cryptanalysis, which can lead to secret key exposure. This happens, because the byte-length of 'k' is incorrectly computed, resulting in its getting truncated during the computation. Legitimate transactions or communications will be broken as a result. Furthermore, due to the nature of the fault, attackers could–under certain conditions–derive the secret key, if they could get their hands on both a faulty signature generated by a vulnerable version of Elliptic and a correct signature for the same inputs.\n\nThis issue affects all known versions of Elliptic (at the time of writing, versions less than or equal to 6.6.1)."
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