Add EIP: ECRECOVER Native Key Awareness#11515
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Companion to EIP-8164. Modifies the ECRECOVER precompile to support native-key accounts: rejects dead ECDSA keys and adds a native-key signature verification mode via a 0xff sentinel in the v position. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| title: ECRECOVER Native Key Awareness | ||
| description: Extends ECRECOVER to verify native-key signatures and reject dead ECDSA keys | ||
| author: Gregory Markou (@GregTheGreek) <gregorymarkou@gmail.com>, James Prestwich (@prestwich) <james@prestwi.ch> | ||
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Summary
0x01) to be native-key-aware0xef01+ nonzero byte), preventing contracts from accepting signatures from dead ECDSA keys0xffsentinel in thevposition enables contract-level signature verification for native-key accounts (ML-DSA-44 defined, forward-compatible with future schemes)Notes
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