Yes, that's possible and what https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/535 does. However, deprecating midstate (and hash1) would allow for much cleaner code.
A pull request for marking midstate (and hash1) as deprecated can be found at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/538 On 29.09.2011 12:23, John Smith wrote: > Nils, > > Sounds good. I'm also doubtful of depending on two crypto libraries when > OpenSSL does perfectly well. > > However, losing compatibility with miners is not very nice. Is there > really not a way to compute midstate with OpenSSL? > > JS > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Nils Schneider <n...@nilsschneider.net > <mailto:n...@nilsschneider.net>> wrote: > > Hey, > > I'd like to simplify the internal reference miner and remove all > dependencies on cryptopp (it's the only place we use cryptopp instead of > OpenSSL). > > Unfortunately, cryptopp is also used to calculate getwork "midstate". > This field is redundant and the miner could easily calculate it from the > blockheader so I'd like to remove it. > > Any thoughts? Where should such a change should be announced so all > miners can be upgraded? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
