A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and a Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures On 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote: > I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.e., they're embedded in > Script as a push operation whose payload is the raw bytes of the big-endian > representation of the integer). As far as I know, DER encoding is only used > for signatures. Am I mistaken? -- Be Happy :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
