John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-10-02 🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-10-02
🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion about implementing SHA2 in Bitcoin without using OpenSSL, with a warning not to try to reimplement existing dependencies.
📝 Original message:On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:49 PM, solar <solar at heliacal.net> wrote:

> It's just simple SHA2, you can implement the whole thing easily without
> dragging in a huge lib like OpenSSL. I guess I haven't looked at it
> recently but the original CPU miner was just implemented locally in bitcoin
> and didn't use any libs.
>

I don't get the 'dragging in' part. Bitcoin already depends on OpenSSL for
ecdsa, bignum, and SSL for RPC. Please, please don't try to reimplement
these locally :-)

JS
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