From: Ethan Heilman <eth3rs@gmail•com>
To: Andrew C <achow101@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] What is OpenSSL still used for?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:58:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEM=y+XUj00YZ=O98nn_NChBZ0=KiX7nPFegnyrDyOQiPgeGmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADToNK--p5FBxCKXGbab4sa_uOkWL=GxcNKA8f6Dgcz+NE0BMg@mail.gmail.com>
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@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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-19 1:39 Andrew C
2016-01-19 3:58 ` Ethan Heilman [this message]
2016-01-21 2:57 ` Douglas Roark
2016-01-21 7:42 ` Jonas Schnelli
2016-01-25 11:58 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
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