EB50 – BTC2B Conference: Nicolas Courtois & potential security vulnerabilities in Bitcoin ECDSA

Summary: Support the show, consider donating: 39rFJA7bHRREpgghnZKzKbYrQEPVX9P3Fj (http://bit.ly/1wl0Ivn) Nicolas Courtois is a cryptographer and senior lecturer at University College London. He has been studying cryptocurrencies for some time and has written a number of papers on bitcoin. His talk is titled "Cryptographic Security of ECDSA in bitcoin" in which he exposes the security vulnerabilities in the specific variation of the Elliptic Curve digital Signature Algorithm used in bitcoin. Links mentioned in this episode: - Slides for this presentation: http://www.nicolascourtois.com/bitcoin/paycoin_ECDSA_survey_Brussels_2014_3abcd.pdf - Nicolas Courtois’s Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Courtois - Personal blog: http://blog.bettercrypto.com/ - On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0534 - Nicolas’s Bitcoin Publications: http://blog.bettercrypto.com/?page_id=63 Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/050 YouTube: http://youtu.be/-nHKhN4XpMw Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc