Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-14 📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 14 January ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-01-14
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 14 January 2015, at 3:53 pm, Eric Lombrozo wrote:
> Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.
I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.e., they're embedded in Script as a push operation whose payload is the raw bytes of the big-endian representation of the integer). As far as I know, DER encoding is only used for signatures. Am I mistaken?
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 14 January 2015, at 3:53 pm, Eric Lombrozo wrote:
> Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.
I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.e., they're embedded in Script as a push operation whose payload is the raw bytes of the big-endian representation of the integer). As far as I know, DER encoding is only used for signatures. Am I mistaken?