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This is not just a theoretical possibility. We have seen this issue lead to exposure of private keys in a few different implementations of transaction-signing algorithms in bitcoin. People have had funds stolen because of inadvertent reuse of a _k_ value. The most common reason for reuse of a _k_ value is an improperly initialized random-number generator.
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This is not just a theoretical possibility. We have seen this issue lead to exposure of private keys in a few different implementations of transaction-signing algorithms in bitcoin. People have had funds stolen because of inadvertent reuse of a _k_ value. The most common reason for reuse of a _k_ value is an improperly initialized random-number generator.
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((("warnings and cautions", "random number generation")))((("deterministic initialization")))To avoid this vulnerability, the industry best practice is to not generate _k_ with a random-number generator seeded with entropy, but instead to use a deterministic-random process seeded with the transaction data itself. This ensures that each transaction produces a different _k_. ((("RFC 6979")))The industry-standard algorithm for deterministic initialization of _k_ is defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979[RFC 6979], published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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((("warnings and cautions", "random number generation")))((("deterministic initialization")))To avoid this vulnerability, the industry best practice is to not generate _k_ with a random-number generator seeded with entropy, but instead to use a deterministic-random process seeded with the transaction data itself. This ensures that each transaction produces a different _k_. The industry-standard algorithm for deterministic initialization of _k_ is defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979[RFC 6979], published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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If you are implementing an algorithm to sign transactions in bitcoin, you _must_ use RFC 6979 or a similarly deterministic-random algorithm to ensure you generate a different _k_ for each transaction.((("", startref="Tdigsig06")))
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If you are implementing an algorithm to sign transactions in bitcoin, you _must_ use RFC 6979 or a similarly deterministic-random algorithm to ensure you generate a different _k_ for each transaction.((("", startref="Tdigsig06")))
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