Tim Ruffing

@real_or_random

serious cryptography keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fing…

somewhere on secp256k1

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Joined February 2014

Tim Ruffing
@real_or_random
Oct 7, 2024
🎉🎉🎉Finally! MuSig2 was merged into libsecp256k1, almost 5 years after the publication of the first paper draft. 🎉🎉🎉
Jonas Nick
@n1ckler
Oct 7, 2024
The MuSig2 🎶 module has been merged into libsecp256k1. This marks significant progress in the real-world deployment of MuSig2 as it'll be available to all existing projects using libsecp256k1 with the next release. Example usage: github.com/bitcoin-core/s… The module has been
Tim Ruffing
@real_or_random
Sep 18, 2024
It appears that German law enforcement agencies have performed successful timing analysis attacks against Tor users.
ndr.de
Investigations in the so-called darknet: Law enforcement agencies undermine Tor anonymisation
The Tor network is considered the most important tool for surfing the internet anonymously. Law enforcement agencies have apparently begun to infiltrate it in order to expose criminals. They have...
Tim Ruffing
@real_or_random
Mar 5, 2024
🎉🎉🎉 libsecp256k1-zkp now has an experimental module for "half-aggregation" of Schnorr signatures. github.com/BlockstreamRes… Big shout out to Benedikt Wagner who contributed the code! benedikt-wagner.dev
Schnorr (Incremental) Half Aggregation by b-wagn · Pull Request #261 · BlockstreamResearch/secp25...
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Tim Ruffing
@real_or_random
Dec 4, 2023
Vim is wonderful. I use it whenever I broke my @emacs config and need to fix it.
Tim Ruffing
@real_or_random
Dec 1, 2023
We've just made signature verification in libsecp256k1 on x86_64 more than 10% faster. How? With a trivial PR that removes over 500 lines of assembly code. Compilers have improved a lot over the years. github.com/bitcoin-core/s… h/t @theStack for the benchmarks.
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