github.com/dashpay/godash@v0.0.0-20160726055534-e038a21e0e3d/btcec/doc.go (about)

     1  // Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers
     2  // Copyright (c) 2016 The Dash developers
     3  // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
     4  // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
     5  
     6  /*
     7  Package btcec implements support for the elliptic curves needed for bitcoin.
     8  
     9  Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography using koblitz curves
    10  (specifically secp256k1) for cryptographic functions.  See
    11  http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf for details on the
    12  standard.
    13  
    14  This package provides the data structures and functions implementing the
    15  crypto/elliptic Curve interface in order to permit using these curves
    16  with the standard crypto/ecdsa package provided with go. Helper
    17  functionality is provided to parse signatures and public keys from
    18  standard formats.  It was designed for use with btcd, but should be
    19  general enough for other uses of elliptic curve crypto.  It was originally based
    20  on some initial work by ThePiachu, but has significantly diverged since then.
    21  */
    22  package btcec