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Hi,

I'll reply to myself here, just to mention that the issue is solved.

Dave Hook from Bouncycastle replied that in the particular signature=20
mentioned, one of the ASN1 encoded Integers is actually negative (which=20
is not a valid coordinate for a point on a curve I assume). Since ASN1=20
integers are always signed, one has to pad "big" values with a zero byte=20
to stay positive.

Workaround is easy for verification (convert to positive).

Robert.

On 01/24/2012 06:33 PM, Brautigam R=F3bert wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 06:50 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>>> I double checked that the official (C++) client is indeed successful
>>> here. Oddly enough the bitcoinj implementation also seems to fail to
>>> verify this transaction, which seems to point in the direction of
>>> BouncyCastle (which we both use).
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