untrusted comment: signature from openbsd 6.0 base secret key RWSho3oKSqgLQ55BCxFoKK3pckJBYNZ3l6vujvan4SYLtXvRIsH6PNnmu7Xu18ILyYPxIQnYmCf1ux+IeoD8vzKfEeoCb+UVdQg= OpenBSD 6.0 errata 16, Jan 5, 2017: Avoid possible side-channel leak of ECDSA private keys when signing. Apply by doing: signify -Vep /etc/signify/openbsd-60-base.pub -x 016_libcrypto.patch.sig \ -m - | (cd /usr/src && patch -p0) And then rebuild and install libcrypto: cd /usr/src/lib/libcrypto make obj make depend make make install Index: lib/libssl/src/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libssl/src/crypto/ecdsa/Attic/ecs_ossl.c,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.6.8.1 diff -u -p -r1.6 -r1.6.8.1 --- lib/libssl/src/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c 8 Feb 2015 13:35:07 -0000 1.6 +++ lib/libssl/src/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c 5 Jan 2017 13:28:48 -0000 1.6.8.1 @@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ ecdsa_sign_setup(EC_KEY *eckey, BN_CTX * if (BN_num_bits(k) <= BN_num_bits(order)) if (!BN_add(k, k, order)) goto err; + + BN_set_flags(k, BN_FLG_CONSTTIME); /* compute r the x-coordinate of generator * k */ if (!EC_POINT_mul(group, tmp_point, k, NULL, NULL, ctx)) {