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Random Oracle in Fiat-Shamir Transform (from Katz-Lindell Textbook)

Anything can be encoded as a bitstring, we just need to be a bit careful as to preserve the security of the random oracle. Let $I\in S$. Then what is meant here by $H(I,m)$ is actually $H(\psi(I,m))$, ...
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How are signature operations like hashing or concatenating with a message done when the input is an elliptic curve point?

The standard ways to encode elliptic curve points to byte strings are outlined in the SEC 1 document section 2.3.3 There is a choice to use a compressed or uncompressed form. In both cases the full 0-...
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