📅 Original date posted:2016-01-19
📝 Original message:I believe libsecp256k1 just performs Elliptic Curve operations
required by Bitcoin. OpenSSL is used for all other crypto.
For instance the PRNG appears to be OpenSSL:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/random.h
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Andrew C via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> In the release notes for 0.12, it says that we have moved from using OpenSSL
> to libsecp256k1 for signature validation. So what else is it being used for
> that we need to keep it as a dependency?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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Ethan Heilman [ARCHIVE] /
npub1ga…gac47
2023-06-07 17:47:58
in reply to nevent1q…qz85
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2023-06-07 17:47:58Event JSON
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