Officialness is determined by a regular expression. ;-)
This is handy because we often want upstream Bitcoin tags for local
diffs, but sometimes we accidentally upload them to github which then
claims they are our releases, which is confusing and misleading.
Remove Bitcoin mainnet and testnet seeds.
Simple patch for issue #651 to remove hard-coded mainnet and testnet seeds
- they currently point to bitcoin nodes
- some are .onion addresses but Tor support has not yet been added
- gets rid of error messages in debug.log which might confuse people testing the alpha builds
CPourTx structural changes
* Enable binary serialization of proofs and the proving key (closes#799) and make the proofs fixed-size.
* Reorder fields of CPourTx to match the spec (closes#927)
Enforce first four bits are zero for all spending keys and phi.
This introduces a `uint252` to ensure these fields are 252-bits for the PRFs.
Closes#899
libzcash and new zkSNARK circuit implementation
This PR completes [`libzcash`](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/tree/zc.v0.11.2.latest/src/zcash), the implementation of the [Zcash protocol specification](https://github.com/zcash/zips/blob/9bb4410e45394c8b7e43e35622f54dd4041a4ddd/protocol/protocol.pdf) and replacement of [`libzerocash`](https://github.com/Zerocash/libzerocash), our old Zerocash protocol implementation. The new spec comes with some improvements to security and terminology, with minimal differences from the original academic design.
This implementation includes:
* A rewrite of the zkSNARK circuit for `JoinSplit` operations. This rewrite is cleaner, broken up into separate gadgets, easier to audit and review, and fixes some security bugs. (Closes#822, Closes#809, Closes#500, Closes#854)
* A minimal API for interacting with `JoinSplit`s and surrounding primitives. This PR removes almost twice as much code as it introduces. (Closes#877, Closes#315, Closes#824, Closes#798, Closes#707, Closes#512, Closes#247, Closes#128, Closes#514)
Nathan Wilcox