From 16361241c83eac65c623b026e3248544290a1274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nhan Vu Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:02:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Replace OpenSSL with secp265k1 According to the tweet https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/1255853793805287429 I replaced OpenSSL with secp265k1 and point to the bitcoin core github repository. Feel free to generate your bit.ly url. My name is Tri Nhan Vu focussing on blockchain education for german speaking people https://chainist.de/. --- ch04.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch04.asciidoc b/ch04.asciidoc index 13538374..aa53910d 100644 --- a/ch04.asciidoc +++ b/ch04.asciidoc @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ To visualize multiplication of a point with an integer, we will use the simpler [TIP] ==== -((("OpenSSL cryptographic library")))Most bitcoin implementations use the http://bit.ly/1ql7bn8[OpenSSL cryptographic library] to do the elliptic curve math. For example, to derive the public key, the function +EC_POINT_mul()+ is used.((("", startref="KAover04"))) +((("secp256k1 C library")))Bitcoin usees the https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1[secp256k1 C library] to do the elliptic curve math. For example, to derive the public key, the function +EC_POINT_mul()+ is used.((("", startref="KAover04"))) ==== [[ecc_illustrated]]