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by rvnx 2322 days ago
No. It's not like that at all. Otherwise there would be no controversy.

The airdrop tool takes your private key and your passphrase, does some overcomplicated (and unconventional) magic with it and asks you to post the resulting data to the public.
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pinhead26 2322 days ago
The Goosig (extra blinding crpyto) is also optional. With the --bare flag, its just a signature.
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rvnx 2322 days ago
Try it please :) I've spent several hours around this option.
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rvnx 2322 days ago
I've explained above why it cannot work, but I'm still digging on alternative that wouldn't consist on revealing the private key.
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rvnx 2322 days ago
More feedback, if I understood it right: if you extract the findNonces function, dump the 1500 files of 512 bytes, transfer them to a machine that has the ssh private key, then you should be able to sign without risking anything (encryption is RSA-OAEP), because your private key wouldn't touch the software.
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