This patch removes the need for the intermediary Base58 type
CBitcoinAddress, by providing {Encode,Decode,IsValid}Destination
function that directly operate on the conversion between strings
and CTxDestination.
Dbwrapper used GetSerializeSize() to compute the size of the buffer
to preallocate. For some cases (specifically: CCoins) this requires
a costly compression call. Avoid this by just using fixed size
preallocations instead.
To get the advantages of faster GetSerializeSize() implementations
back that were removed in "Make GetSerializeSize a wrapper on top of
CSizeComputer", reintroduce them in the few places in the form of a
specialized Serialize() implementation. This actually gets us in a
better state than before, as these even get used when they're invoked
indirectly in the serialization of another object.
The CSerAction's ForRead() method does not depend on any runtime
data, so guarantee that requests to it can be optimized out by
making it constexpr.
Suggested by Cory Fields.
Remove the nType and nVersion as parameters to all serialization methods
and functions. There is only one place where it's read and has an impact
(in CAddress), and even there it does not impact any of the recursively
invoked serializers.
Instead, the few places that need nType or nVersion are changed to read
it directly from the stream object, through GetType() and GetVersion()
methods which are added to all stream classes.
Given that in default GetSerializeSize implementations created by
ADD_SERIALIZE_METHODS we're already using CSizeComputer(), get rid
of the specialized GetSerializeSize methods everywhere, and just use
CSizeComputer. This removes a lot of code which isn't actually used
anywhere.
For CCompactSize and CVarInt this actually removes a more efficient
size computing algorithm, which is brought back in a later commit.
The stream implementations had two cascading layers (the upper one
with operator<< and operator>>, and a lower one with read and write).
The lower layer's functions are never cascaded (nor should they, as
they should only be used from the higher layer), so make them return
void instead.
Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.
We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.
This makes sure that retransmits by a whitelisted peer also actually
result in a retransmit.
Further, this changes the logic to never relay in case we would assign
a DoS score, as we expect to get DoS banned ourselves as a result.
Previously, the undo weren't being flushed during a reindex because
fKnown was set to true in FindBlockPos. That is the correct behaviour
for block files as they aren't being touched, but undo files are
touched.
This changes the behaviour to always flush when switching to a new file
(even for block files, though that isn't really necessary).
Rebased-From: 22e780737db57bcb18b3824eb8158e19a4775cb6
Github-Pull: #6948
libsecp256k1's API changed, so update key.cpp to use it.
Libsecp256k1 now has explicit context objects, which makes it completely thread-safe.
In turn, keep an explicit context object in key.cpp, which is explicitly initialized
destroyed. This is not really pretty now, but it's more efficient than the static
initialized object in key.cpp (which made for example bitcoin-tx slow, as for most of
its calls, libsecp256k1 wasn't actually needed).
This also brings in the new blinding support in libsecp256k1. By passing in a random
seed, temporary variables during the elliptic curve computations are altered, in such
a way that if an attacker does not know the blind, observing the internal operations
leaks less information about the keys used. This was implemented by Greg Maxwell.
1897b8e Merge pull request #229
efc571c Add simple testcases for signing with rfc6979 extra entropy.
1573a10 Add ability to pass extra entropy to rfc6979
3087bc4 Merge pull request #228
d9b9f11 Merge pull request #218
0065a8f Eliminate multiple-returns from secp256k1.c.
354ffa3 Make secp256k1_ec_pubkey_create reject oversized secrets.
27bc131 Silence some warnings from pedantic static analysis tools, improve compatibility with C++.
3b7ea63 Merge pull request #221
f789c5b Merge pull request #215
4bc273b Merge pull request #222
137a8ec Merge pull request #216
7c3771d Disable overlength-strings warnings.
8956111 use 128-bit hex seed
02efd06 Use RFC6979 for test PRNGs
ae55e85 Use faster byteswapping and avoid alignment-increasing casts.
443cd4b Get rid of hex format and some binary conversions
0bada0e Merge #214: Improve signing API documentation & specification
8030d7c Improve signing API documentation & specification
7b2fc1c Merge #213: Removed gotos, which are hard to trace and maintain.
11690d3 Removed gotos, which are hard to trace and maintain.
122a1ec Merge pull request #205
035406d Merge pull request #206
2d4cd53 Merge pull request #161
34b898d Additional comments for the testing PRNG and a seeding fix.
6efd6e7 Some comments explaining some of the constants in the code.
ffccfd2 x86_64 assembly optimization for scalar_4x64
67cbdf0 Merge pull request #207
039723d Benchmarks for all internal operations
6cc8425 Include a comment on secp256k1_ecdsa_sign explaining low-s.
f88343f Merge pull request #203
d61e899 Add group operation counts
2473f17 Merge pull request #202
b5bbce6 Some readme updates, e.g. removal of the GMP field.
f0d851e Merge pull request #201
a0ea884 Merge pull request #200
f735446 Convert the rest of the codebase to C89.
bf2e1ac Convert tests to C89. (also fixes a use of bare "inline" in field)
fc8285f Merge pull request #199
fff412e Merge pull request #197
4be8d6f Centralize the definition of uint128_t and use it uniformly.
d9543c9 Switch scalar code to C89.
fcc48c4 Remove the non-storage cmov
55422b6 Switch ecmult_gen to use storage types
41f8455 Use group element storage type in EC multiplications
e68d720 Add group element storage type
ff889f7 Field storage type
7137be8 Merge pull request #196
0768bd5 Get rid of variable-length hex string conversions
e84e761 Merge pull request #195
792bcdb Covert several more files to C89.
45cdf44 Merge pull request #193
17db09e Merge pull request #194
402878a fix ifdef/ifndef
25b35c7 Convert field code to strict C89 (+ long long, +__int128)
3627437 C89 nits and dead code removal.
a9f350d Merge pull request #191
4732d26 Convert the field/group/ecdsa constant initialization to static consts
19f3e76 Remove unused secp256k1_fe_inner_{start, stop} functions
f1ebfe3 Convert the scalar constant initialization to static consts
git-subtree-dir: src/secp256k1
git-subtree-split: 1897b8e90bbbdcd919427c9a8ae35b420e919d8f
This adds a -checkblockindex (defaulting to true for regtest), which occasionally
does a full consistency check for mapBlockIndex, setBlockIndexCandidates, chainActive, and
mapBlocksUnlinked.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 6 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 2 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 2 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
Give each address a single fixed location in the new and tried tables,
which become simple fixed-size arrays instead of sets and vectors.
This prevents attackers from having an advantages by inserting an
address multiple times.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 1 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
It is also more efficient.
Pieter Wuille