We participated in darkCTF. Here are the writeups for the blockchain challenges I solved.
Looks like Mr. Jones has found a secret key. Can you retrieve it like him?
Format : darkCTF{hex value of key}
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/83415dded4757181c6e1c55104e2742a6f8cff05a9a46fbf029ae47b0054d511
z1 =
0xc0e2d0a89a348de88fda08211c70d1d7e52ccef2eb9459911bf977d587784c6ez2 =
0x17b0f41c8c337ac1e18c98759e83a8cccbc368dd9d89e5f03cb633c265fd0ddc
I googled the value of z1 and found the following tool.
The ECDSA random number generation of Bitcoin was incomplete, and the vulnerability existed that allowed for the calculation of a private key. Bitcoin has already fixed this vulnerability by implementing "RFC 6979: Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)."
I run the following script.
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Proof of concept of bitcoin private key recovery using weak ECDSA signatures
#
# Based on http://www.nilsschneider.net/2013/01/28/recovering-bitcoin-private-keys.html
# Regarding Bitcoin Tx https://blockchain.info/tx/9ec4bc49e828d924af1d1029cacf709431abbde46d59554b62bc270e3b29c4b1.
# As it's said in the previous article you need to poke around into the OP_CHECKSIG function in order to get z1 and z2,
# in other hand for every other parameters you should be able to get them from the Tx itself.
#
# Author Dario Clavijo <dclavijo@protonmail.com> , Jan 2013
# Donations: 1LgWNdNTnzeNgNMzWHtPtXPjxcutJKu74r
#
# This code is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license http://gplv3.fsf.org/
#
# Disclaimer: Do not steal other peoples money, that's bad.
# The math
# Q=dP compute public key Q where d is a secret scalar and G the base point
# (x1,y1)=kP where k is random choosen an secret
# r= x1 mod n
# compute k**-1 or inv(k)
# compute z=hash(m)
# s= inv(k)(z + d) mod n
# sig=k(r,s) or (r,-s mod n)
# Key recovery
# d = (sk-z)/r where r is the same
import hashlib
tx = "83415dded4757181c6e1c55104e2742a6f8cff05a9a46fbf029ae47b0054d511"
p = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141
#r = 0xd47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad1
#s1 = 0x44e1ff2dfd8102cf7a47c21d5c9fd5701610d04953c6836596b4fe9dd2f53e3e
#s2 = 0x9a5f1c75e461d7ceb1cf3cab9013eb2dc85b6d0da8c3c6e27e3a5a5b3faa5bab
z1 = 0xc0e2d0a89a348de88fda08211c70d1d7e52ccef2eb9459911bf977d587784c6e
z2 = 0x17b0f41c8c337ac1e18c98759e83a8cccbc368dd9d89e5f03cb633c265fd0ddc
# r1 and s1 are contained in this ECDSA signature encoded in DER (openssl default).
der_sig1 = "30440220d47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad102202f88bf73d0f94a1e917d1a6e65ba15a9dbf52d0999c91f2c2c6bb710e018f7e001"
# the same thing with the above line.
der_sig2 = "30440220d47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad102203602aff824a32c19825425704546145d5fbc282ee912089923e824f46867647b01"
params = {'p':p,'sig1':der_sig1,'sig2':der_sig2,'z1':z1,'z2':z2}
def hexify (s, flip=False):
if flip:
return s[::-1].encode ('hex')
else:
return s.encode ('hex')
def unhexify (s, flip=False):
if flip:
return s.decode ('hex')[::-1]
else:
return s.decode ('hex')
def inttohexstr(i):
tmpstr = hex(i)
hexstr = tmpstr.replace('0x','').replace('L','').zfill(64)
return hexstr
b58_digits = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
def dhash(s):
return hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(s).digest()).digest()
def rhash(s):
h1 = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
h1.update(hashlib.sha256(s).digest())
return h1.digest()
def base58_encode(n):
l = []
while n > 0:
n, r = divmod(n, 58)
l.insert(0,(b58_digits[r]))
return ''.join(l)
def base58_encode_padded(s):
res = base58_encode(int('0x' + s.encode('hex'), 16))
pad = 0
for c in s:
if c == chr(0):
pad += 1
else:
break
return b58_digits[0] * pad + res
def base58_check_encode(s, version=0):
vs = chr(version) + s
check = dhash(vs)[:4]
return base58_encode_padded(vs + check)
def get_der_field(i,binary):
if (ord(binary[i]) == 02):
length = binary[i+1]
end = i + ord(length) + 2
string = binary[i+2:end]
return string
else:
return None
# Here we decode a DER encoded string separating r and s
def der_decode(hexstring):
binary = unhexify(hexstring)
full_length = ord(binary[1])
if ((full_length + 3) == len(binary)):
r = get_der_field(2,binary)
s = get_der_field(len(r)+4,binary)
return r,s
else:
return None
def show_results(privkeys):
print "Posible Candidates..."
for privkey in privkeys:
hexprivkey = inttohexstr(privkey)
# print "intPrivkey = %d" % privkey
print "darkCTF{%s}" % hexprivkey
# print "bitcoin Privkey (WIF) = %s" % base58_check_encode(hexprivkey.decode('hex'),version=128)
# print "bitcoin Privkey (WIF compressed) = %s" % base58_check_encode((hexprivkey + "01").decode('hex'),version=128)
def show_params(params):
for param in params:
try:
print "%s: %s" % (param,inttohexstr(params[param]))
except:
print "%s: %s" % (param,params[param])
# By the Fermat's little theorem we can say that:
# a * pow(b,p-2,p) is the same as (a/b mod p)
# This is needed to avoid floating numbers since we are dealing with prime numbers
# and beacuse this the python built in division isn't suitable for our needs,
# it returns floating point numbers rounded and we don't want them.
def inverse_mult(a,b,p):
y = (a * pow(b,p-2,p)) #(pow(a, b) modulo p) where p should be a prime number
return y
# Here is the wrock!
def derivate_privkey(p,r,s1,s2,z1,z2):
privkey = []
s1ms2 = s1-s2
s1ps2 = s1+s2
ms1ms2 = -s1-s2
ms1ps2 = -s1+s2
z1ms2 = z1*s2
z2ms1 = z2*s1
z1s2mz2s1 = z1ms2-z2ms1
z1s2pz2s1 = z1ms2+z2ms1
rs1ms2 = r*s1ms2
rs1ps2 = r*s1ps2
rms1ms2 = r*ms1ms2
rms1ps2 = r*ms1ps2
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2mz2s1,rs1ms2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2mz2s1,rs1ps2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2mz2s1,rms1ms2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2mz2s1,rms1ps2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2pz2s1,rs1ms2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2pz2s1,rs1ps2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2pz2s1,rms1ms2,p) % p)
privkey.append(inverse_mult(z1s2pz2s1,rms1ps2,p) % p)
return privkey
def process_signatures(params):
p = params['p']
sig1 = params['sig1']
sig2 = params['sig2']
z1 = params['z1']
z2 = params['z2']
tmp_r1,tmp_s1 = der_decode(sig1) # Here we extract r and s from the signature encoded in DER.
tmp_r2,tmp_s2 = der_decode(sig2) # Idem.
# the key of ECDSA are the integer numbers thats why we convert hexa from to them.
r1 = int(tmp_r1.encode('hex'),16)
r2 = int(tmp_r2.encode('hex'),16)
s1 = int(tmp_s1.encode('hex'),16)
s2 = int(tmp_s2.encode('hex'),16)
if (r1 == r2): # If r1 and r2 are equal the two signatures are weak and we can recover the private key.
if (s1 != s2): # This: (s1-s2)>0 should be complied in order be able to compute the private key.
privkey = derivate_privkey(p,r1,s1,s2,z1,z2)
return privkey
else:
raise Exception("Privkey not computable: s1 and s2 are equal.")
else:
raise Exception("Privkey not computable: r1 and r2 are not equal.")
def main():
show_params(params)
privkey = process_signatures(params)
if len(privkey)>0:
show_results(privkey)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()The result is as follows.
$ pyenv local 2.7.18
$ python ProofOfConcept.py
sig1: 30440220d47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad102202f88bf73d0f94a1e917d1a6e65ba15a9dbf52d0999c91f2c2c6bb710e018f7e001
p: fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141
sig2: 30440220d47ce4c025c35ec440bc81d99834a624875161a26bf56ef7fdc0f5d52f843ad102203602aff824a32c19825425704546145d5fbc282ee912089923e824f46867647b01
z1: c0e2d0a89a348de88fda08211c70d1d7e52ccef2eb9459911bf977d587784c6e
z2: 17b0f41c8c337ac1e18c98759e83a8cccbc368dd9d89e5f03cb633c265fd0ddc
Posible Candidates...
darkCTF{791198f7b09c5e63fc5798df41c4090d2265d8066e4d4a917a9d604f17ccf856}
darkCTF{12cba205306996b4fc6d9f6a4b920cebecf0c7b88b2b773af0c3b6a551b16339}
darkCTF{ed345dfacf96694b03926095b46df312cdbe152e241d2900cf0ea7e77e84de08}
darkCTF{86ee67084f63a19c03a86720be3bf6f1984904e040fb55aa4534fe3db86948eb}
darkCTF{4d35700e35810e99564f9aeade7c0687298d0b401f2096845eb6f24285f71115}
darkCTF{a02e8abb6d006105a2325510e70f723f4f0ad8dbba57605a39cfec10d47e695c}
darkCTF{5fd1754492ff9efa5dcdaaef18f08dbf6ba4040af4f13fe18602727bfbb7d7e5}
darkCTF{b2ca8ff1ca7ef166a9b065152183f9779121d1a6902809b7611b6c4a4a3f302c}The flag is darkCTF{791198f7b09c5e63fc5798df41c4090d2265d8066e4d4a917a9d604f17ccf856}
Ropsten network contains my dark secret. Help us find it. Name of the contract was
0x6e5EA18371748Db7F12A70037d647cDFCf458e45
I took a look at the transactions in the Ropsten network explorer (Etherscan).
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0x55cb76f021a69c1c5bae2830af946d4b11022c94dd91eeb65d520c11a3b5fca3
There are two successful transactions associated with this contract.
The first is the contract creation transaction. I looked at the change in state due to this transaction.
There is a hexadecimal string of alphabets. The decoding result:
$ echo 3337373233343665333533343633333733313330366537640000000000000030 | xxd -r -p
3772346e3534633731306e7d0
$ echo 3772346e3534633731306e7d0 | xxd -r -p
7r4n54c710n}This string appears to be the end of the flag.
I looked at the change in the state due to the second transaction.
The decoding result:
$ echo 486d6d2d36343631373236423433353434363742333337343638333337323333 | xxd -r -p
Hmm-6461726B4354467B337468337233⏎
$ echo 6461726B4354467B337468337233 | xxd -r -p
darkCTF{3th3r3
$ echo 3735364435463335333733303732333436373333354600000000000000000000 | xxd -r -p
756D5F353730723467335F
$ echo 756D5F353730723467335F | xxd -r -p
um_570r4g3_I joined together all the pieces and got the flag: darkCTF{3th3r3um_570r4g3_7r4n54c710n}