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It is very likely that the bitcoin community would be the first to stumble onto a crypto bug in SecureRandom. Google should thank that community for their disc
by jadeddrag 13y ago
It is very likely that the bitcoin community would be the first to stumble onto a crypto bug in SecureRandom. Google should thank that community for their discovery.
- makomk 13y agoExtremely likely, in this case. It looks like the way it was discovered is that various people have set up bots to take Bitcoins from transactions with repeated r values, and they took coins from Android Bitcoin clients that on paper were doing everything right.