[Cryptography] Proof-of-Satoshi fails Proof-of-Proof.

[Ron Garret]

On May 5, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:

> But with all forms of DH based signatures, a random number is generated and that affects the signature value. In effect, every signature has a salt value.

No, that’s not true.  Ed25519 signatures use a hash of the content being signed as the “random” value and so are deterministic.  This is one of the things that makes Ed25519 better than standard ECDSA.

rg