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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fa8346ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers +// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +/* +Package btcec implements support for the elliptic curves needed for bitcoin. + +Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography using koblitz curves +(specifically secp256k1) for cryptographic functions. See +http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf for details on the +standard. + +This package provides the data structures and functions implementing the +crypto/elliptic Curve interface in order to permit using these curves +with the standard crypto/ecdsa package provided with go. Helper +functionality is provided to parse signatures and public keys from +standard formats. It was designed for use with btcd, but should be +general enough for other uses of elliptic curve crypto. It was originally based +on some initial work by ThePiachu, but has significantly diverged since then. +*/ +package btcec |