Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.5 with libsecp256k1

2013-10-11 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Thanks! I'd love to see this library become usable behind a command line > flag or config setting. At some point we're going to want to switch to it. > The current idea is to provide a compile-time flag to enable it, which at the same time dis

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.5 with libsecp256k1

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
Thanks! I'd love to see this library become usable behind a command line flag or config setting. At some point we're going to want to switch to it. I believe the main issue at the moment is the malleability issues? If so, it would seem possible to use OpenSSL to parse the signature into components

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