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Re: Pure Python ECDSA implementation?
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Cytality
on 26/01/2014, 23:05:56 UTC
Is there a pure Python ECDSA Secp256k1 implementation? I don't care how slow it is, because calling libcrypto in a loop gives me Segmentation fault every 3-4 million loops. I'm using Joric/bitcoin-dev implementation and I've tried to find the cause with gdb, but give up on it, have no more nerves for it.

Using some utility through RPC is not an attractive option because of overhead. If anyone has a link to a native Python solution I would be grateful.


https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa



Sorry, but just a slightly off-kilter question for you... Why not use C++? I assume you may develop Python on a Linux platform, so development and IDE usage would be similar. Hell, even the syntax is similar. With C++, however, you get more control from your code.