Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.5 with libsecp256k1

2013-10-09 Thread Jeremy Spilman
Can this be combined with the ideas on deterministic signing to show matching signatures with OpenSSL's implementation?Not sure if that's worth much, since we would just be testing needles in a very large haystack, but better than nothing?On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:50:30 -0700, Warren Togami Jr. wrot

[Bitcoin-development] 0.8.5 with libsecp256k1

2013-10-09 Thread Warren Togami Jr.
https://github.com/sipa/secp256k1 sipa's secp256k1, optimized ecdsa, significantly faster than openssl Today someone in #bitcoin-dev asked for Bitcoin 0.8.5 with sipa's secp256k1. Litecoin has been shipping test builds with secp256k1 for several months now so it was a simple matter to throw toget