BitcoinJS uses OpenSSL to calculate midstate: https://github.com/bitcoinjs/node-bitcoin-p2p/blob/master/native.cc#L380
On 9/29/2011 1:40 PM, Nils Schneider wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
