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		nullc on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reconstructing Public Keys from Signatures It's specific to ECDSA recovery, where instead of using a pubkey and message to validate a signature you use a signature and message to recover the pubkey, so the age of ECDSA isn't particularly relevant in and of itself.

lxgr on June 23, 2024 [–]

Huh, interesting! I somehow assumed that that fact would be obvious enough to implementers for there to be prior art. Do you have any more details?

nullc on June 23, 2024 | [–]

> obvious enough to implementers for there to be prior art. Do you have any more details?

I haven't made any comment in this thread on its validity. :)

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