The Frozen Heart: A Vulnerability in Bulletproofs' Fiat-Shamir Generation

The Frozen Heart: A Vulnerability in Bulletproofs' Fiat-Shamir Generation

CVE-2022-29566 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The Bulletproofs 2017/1066 paper mishandles Fiat-Shamir generation because the hash computation fails to include all of the public values from the Zero Knowledge proof statement as well as all of the public values computed in the proof, aka the Frozen Heart issue.

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