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From: odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net
To: "Srintuar" <srintuar@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug in key.cpp
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 20:12:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <da34991a7a2db8f6f15401ed614cfe1e.squirrel@fulvetta.riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACUQsLJwNo=GtcozCRpZU9PDDJE1fY-mnMomCUtf0WCsgGEnfA@mail.gmail.com>

You are right there is a bug in there.

But the value is not 25% I think.  Tinker some more. :-)

> I think i see a bug:
>
> line 273 of key.cpp
>
>         if (rec<0 || rec>=3)
>             return false;
>
> Afaict, 3 is a perfectly valid value, meaning 25% of sig-> key recoveries
> would fail erroneously...
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06  2:42 [Bitcoin-development] Bug in key.cpp Srintuar
2014-05-06  3:12 ` odinn.cyberguerrilla [this message]
2014-05-06  8:25   ` Pieter Wuille

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