Jean-Pierre Rupp [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-15 📝 Original message:A public key is a point in ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-01-15
📝 Original message:A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and
a Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures
On 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> 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?
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📝 Original message:A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and
a Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures
On 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> 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?
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Be Happy :)