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Schnorr Signatures

Talkat TABConf 2021 · 2021-11-04..11-06· [bitcoin, cryptography]
github:jimmysong
slides:none on file

Compares ECDSA’s costly field division to Schnorr’s use of a hash (per BIP340) and claims much faster CPU verification; shows signing moves from committing an x-coordinate to committing a full EC point so you can do batch verification, signature aggregation, and pubkey aggregation (n-of-n multisig appears as a single key on-chain via Taproot). Describes MuSig/MuSig2 style nonce and commitment steps to mitigate the rogue key attack.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 3:56VERIFICATION ALGORITHM
  3. 9:44OVERVIEW
  4. 14:43BATCH VERIFICATION
  5. 19:47PUBLIC KEY AGGREGATION
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