📅 Original date posted:2015-01-15
📝 Original message: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 :)
Jean-Pierre Rupp [ARCHIVE] /
npub1ym…v30qh
2023-06-07 15:28:31
in reply to nevent1q…jnkq
Author Public Key
npub1ymm7v2axmjgetkqvh6l7900qnk5za089fcu7snzsw6f5wzy55e5s3v30qhSeen on
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2023-06-07 15:28:31Event JSON
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"content": "📅 Original date posted:2015-01-15\n📝 Original message:A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and\na Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here:\n\nhttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures\n\nOn 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote:\n\u003e 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?\n\n-- \nBe Happy :)",
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