[HN Gopher] A Dive into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures
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       A Dive into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures
        
       Author : janandonly
       Score  : 88 points
       Date   : 2023-07-03 17:42 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | ForHackernews wrote:
       | Are they still trying to make fetch happen?
        
       | _nhynes wrote:
       | I was searching for implementations to get a more concrete idea
       | of the algorithm and came across
       | https://github.com/Yawning/secp256k1-voi which appears to be well
       | commented, robust, and oddly entertaining. It's got Schnorr, and
       | ECDSA for comparison.
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       | There's also a musig2 one by the same author.
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | The most widely-used (but not widely-known) application of
       | Schnorr signatures may be in Microsoft's product keys. Of course
       | they used a much smaller private key than we'd think is normal
       | today, and as a result, I believe it's been cracked for
       | everything up to ~XP.
        
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