Change EC backend
ofek opened this issue · comments
Consider switching from the current OpenSSL hack/pure Python implementation to https://github.com/ofek/coincurve.
Features:
- Clean API
- Uses newest version of libsecp256k1
- Support for Windows
- Linux, macOS, and Windows all have binary packages for both 64 and 32-bit architectures
- Linux & macOS use GMP for faster computation
- Endomorphism optimization is enabled
- Implements a fix for https://bugs.python.org/issue28150 to support Python 3.6+ on macOS
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