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by dilippkumar 1525 days ago
> If an attacker can ever guess a single bit of the nonce with probability non-negligibly >50%, they can find the private key of whoever signed the message(s).

This doesn’t seem right. Why wouldn’t someone guess a bit 0, see if the recovered message makes sense, and if it doesn’t, then try bit 1?

It would make the entire scheme useless no? Am I missing something?

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I think they have to get the bit repeatedly and then combine the biased signatures together mathematically to get the key.