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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:04:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBgR1Ycaf5g1TCs7=ok2YSxoNhTJcAFdnO8o4BK47vavWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8414072-3C87-46BE-82DA-B372927300AA@me.com>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman
<jeanpaulkogelman@me.com> wrote:
>> As far as I know, judging from the implementation, there is hardly any
>> effort to try to prevent timing attacks.
>>
>
> Is it safe to assume that this is also true for your secp256k1 implementation?

I've done some preliminary work on making it leak less, but it's by no
means guaranteed to be constant time either (so better assume it is
not).

-- 
Pieter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-05 12:49 [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys Mike Hearn
2014-03-05 12:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-03-05 13:18   ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-03-05 14:04     ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2014-03-05 16:21 ` Kevin
2014-03-05 19:39   ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 19:51     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 20:32       ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 20:54         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-12  9:44           ` Peter Todd
2014-03-05 22:17     ` James Hartig
2014-03-05 22:26       ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-06  7:02     ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-03-08 19:34   ` Luke-Jr
2014-03-09  1:57     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 21:31 ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-05 21:44   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-05 22:14     ` Eric Lombrozo
2014-03-05 22:25       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-03-06  8:38         ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-06 10:00           ` Natanael
2014-03-25 13:39             ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-03-25 13:50               ` Gavin Andresen
2014-03-08 19:29           ` Gustav Simonsson

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