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Nils Amiet & Marco Maccetti: Polynonce — A New Attack on ECDSA

Duration: 20min 9sec Type: Presentation (lecture) Playlist: 21 of 146 in Defcon
A DEF CON 31 talk on a new attack against the ECDSA digital signature algorithm. The researchers demonstrate how it can be applied to real-world data, including transactions on Bitcoin and Ethereum networks.

Blockchain analysis revealed evidence of ongoing attacks targeting vulnerable wallets.

The authors also released a research paper and open-source code to help developers test their systems for this vulnerability.