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Re:Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access... by tombeak on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:02PM (#30003934)
Craig was Wright then, you can't derive the private key from a single transaction. Bitcoin would be broken if you could.
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Re:Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access... by marcan_42 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:36PM (#30004224)
Rather, Craig had no idea what the conversation was even about.
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Re:Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access... by tombeak on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:57PM (#30004384)
Dr Nicolas Courtois - "You can get a private key from one single transaction or from one single digital signature."

That's false.

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Re:Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access... by marcan_42 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:58PM (#30004856)
That's missing context. It's true if the nonce is predictable.
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Re:Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access... by tombeak on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:16AM (#30009165)
Craig Wright - "The nonces I used are non-standard."

Dr Nicolas Courtois - "Well, uhhhum that's the question."

Craig Wright told him that he used non-standard nonces, not predictable ones.

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