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