I've collected these over time, mostly adding notes after
troubleshooting obscure bugs. As I hope to get the community more
involved in the whole process, I think it is useful to add to the
developer-notes.
This continues/fixes #6719.
`event_base_loopbreak` was not doing what I expected it to, at least in
libevent 2.0.21.
What I expected was that it sets a timeout, given that no other pending
events it would exit in N seconds. However, what it does was delay the
event loop exit with 10 seconds, even if nothing is pending.
Solve it in a different way: give the event loop thread time to exit
out of itself, and if it doesn't, send loopbreak.
This speeds up the RPC tests a lot, each exit incurred a 10 second
overhead, with this change there should be no shutdown overhead in the
common case and up to two seconds if the event loop is blocking.
As a bonus this breaks dependency on boost::thread_group, as the HTTP
server minds its own offspring.
2bfb82b Merge pull request #351
06aeea5 Turn secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize outlen to in/out
970164d Merge pull request #348
6466625 Improvements for coordinate decompression
e2100ad Merge pull request #347
8e48787 Change secp256k1_ec_pubkey_combine's count argument to size_t.
c69dea0 Clear output in more cases for pubkey_combine, adds tests.
269d422 Comment copyediting.
b4d17da Merge pull request #344
4709265 Merge pull request #345
26abce7 Adds 32 static test vectors for scalar mul, sqr, inv.
5b71a3f Better error case handling for pubkey_create & pubkey_serialize, more tests.
3b7bc69 Merge pull request #343
eed87af Change contrib/laxder from headers-only to files compilable as standalone C
d7eb1ae Merge pull request #342
7914a6e Make lax_der_privatekey_parsing.h not depend on internal code
73f64ff Merge pull request #339
9234391 Overhaul flags handling
1a36898 Make flags more explicit, add runtime checks.
1a3e03a Merge pull request #340
96be204 Add additional tests for eckey and arg-checks.
bb5aa4d Make the tweak function zeroize-output-on-fail behavior consistent.
4a243da Move secp256k1_ec_privkey_import/export to contrib.
1b3efc1 Move secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_recover into the recovery module.
e3cd679 Eliminate all side-effects from VERIFY_CHECK() usage.
b30fc85 Avoid nonce_function_rfc6979 algo16 argument emulation.
70d4640 Make secp256k1_ec_pubkey_create skip processing invalid secret keys.
6c476a8 Minor comment improvements.
131afe5 Merge pull request #334
0c6ab2f Introduce explicit lower-S normalization
fea19e7 Add contrib/lax_der_parsing.h
3bb9c44 Rewrite ECDSA signature parsing code
fa57f1b Use secp256k1_rand_int and secp256k1_rand_bits more
49b3749 Add new tests for the extra testrand functions
f684d7d Faster secp256k1_rand_int implementation
251b1a6 Improve testrand: add extra random functions
31994c8 Merge pull request #338
f79aa88 Bugfix: swap arguments to noncefp
c98df26 Merge pull request #319
67f7da4 Extensive interface and operations tests for secp256k1_ec_pubkey_parse.
ee2cb40 Add ARG_CHECKs to secp256k1_ec_pubkey_parse/secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize
7450ef1 Merge pull request #328
68a3c76 Merge pull request #329
98135ee Merge pull request #332
37100d7 improve ECDH header-doc
b13d749 Fix couple of typos in API comments
7c823e3 travis: fixup module configs
cc3141a Merge pull request #325
ee58fae Merge pull request #326
213aa67 Do not force benchmarks to be statically linked.
338fc8b Add API exports to secp256k1_nonce_function_default and secp256k1_nonce_function_rfc6979.
52fd03f Merge pull request #320
9f6993f Remove some dead code.
357f8cd Merge pull request #314
118cd82 Use explicit symbol visibility.
4e64608 Include public module headers when compiling modules.
1f41437 Merge pull request #316
fe0d463 Merge pull request #317
cfe0ed9 Fix miscellaneous style nits that irritate overactive static analysis.
2b199de Use the explicit NULL macro for pointer comparisons.
9e90516 Merge pull request #294
dd891e0 Get rid of _t as it is POSIX reserved
201819b Merge pull request #313
912f203 Eliminate a few unbraced statements that crept into the code.
eeab823 Merge pull request #299
486b9bb Use a flags bitfield for compressed option to secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize and secp256k1_ec_privkey_export
05732c5 Callback data: Accept pointers to either const or non-const data
1973c73 Bugfix: Reinitialise buffer lengths that have been used as outputs
788038d Use size_t for lengths (at least in external API)
c9d7c2a secp256k1_context_set_{error,illegal}_callback: Restore default handler by passing NULL as function argument
9aac008 secp256k1_context_destroy: Allow NULL argument as a no-op
64b730b secp256k1_context_create: Use unsigned type for flags bitfield
cb04ab5 Merge pull request #309
a551669 Merge pull request #295
81e45ff Update group_impl.h
85e3a2c Merge pull request #112
b2eb63b Merge pull request #293
dc0ce9f [API BREAK] Change argument order to out/outin/in
6d947ca Merge pull request #298
c822693 Merge pull request #301
6d04350 Merge pull request #303
7ab311c Merge pull request #304
5fb3229 Fixes a bug where bench_sign would fail due to passing in too small a buffer.
263dcbc remove unused assignment
b183b41 bugfix: "ARG_CHECK(ctx != NULL)" makes no sense
6da1446 build: fix parallel build
5eb4356 Merge pull request #291
c996d53 Print success
9f443be Move pubkey recovery code to separate module
d49abbd Separate ECDSA recovery tests
439d34a Separate recoverable and normal signatures
a7b046e Merge pull request #289
f66907f Improve/reformat API documentation secp256k1.h
2f77487 Add context building benchmarks
cc623d5 Merge pull request #287
de7e398 small typo fix
9d96e36 Merge pull request #280
432e1ce Merge pull request #283
14727fd Use correct name in gitignore
356b0e9 Actually test static precomputation in Travis
ff3a5df Merge pull request #284
2587208 Merge pull request #212
a5a66c7 Add support for custom EC-Schnorr-SHA256 signatures
d84a378 Merge pull request #252
72ae443 Improve perf. of cmov-based table lookup
92e53fc Implement endomorphism optimization for secp256k1_ecmult_const
ed35d43 Make `secp256k1_scalar_add_bit` conditional; make `secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda_var` constant time
91c0ce9 Add benchmarks for ECDH and const-time multiplication
0739bbb Add ECDH module which works by hashing the output of ecmult_const
4401500 Add constant-time multiply `secp256k1_ecmult_const` for ECDH
e4ce393 build: fix hard-coded usage of "gen_context"
b8e39ac build: don't use BUILT_SOURCES for the static context header
baa75da tests: add a couple tests
ae4f0c6 Merge pull request #278
995c548 Introduce callback functions for dealing with errors.
c333074 Merge pull request #282
18c329c Remove the internal secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_t type
74a2acd Add a secp256k1_ecdsa_signature_t type
23cfa91 Introduce secp256k1_pubkey_t type
4c63780 Merge pull request #269
3e6f1e2 Change rfc6979 implementation to be a generic PRNG
ed5334a Update configure.ac to make it build on OpenBSD
1b68366 Merge pull request #274
a83bb48 Make ecmult static precomputation default
166b32f Merge pull request #276
c37812f Add gen_context src/ecmult_static_context.h to CLEANFILES to fix distclean.
125c15d Merge pull request #275
76f6769 Fix build with static ecmult altroot and make dist.
5133f78 Merge pull request #254
b0a60e6 Merge pull request #258
733c1e6 Add travis build to test the static context.
fbecc38 Add ability to use a statically generated ecmult context.
4fb174d Merge pull request #263
4ab8990 Merge pull request #270
bdf0e0c Merge pull request #271
31d0c1f Merge pull request #273
eb2c8ff Add missing casts to SECP256K1_FE_CONST_INNER
55399c2 Further performance improvements to _ecmult_wnaf
99fd963 Add secp256k1_ec_pubkey_compress(), with test similar to the related decompress() function.
145cc6e Improve performance of _ecmult_wnaf
36b305a Verify the result of GMP modular inverse using non-GMP code
0cbc860 Merge pull request #266
06ff7fe Merge pull request #267
5a43124 Save 1 _fe_negate since s1 == -s2
a5d796e Update code comments
3f3964e Add specific VERIFY tests for _fe_cmov
7d054cd Refactor to save a _fe_negate
b28d02a Refactor to remove a local var
55e7fc3 Perf. improvement in _gej_add_ge
a0601cd Fix VERIFY calculations in _fe_cmov methods
17f7148 Merge pull request #261
7657420 Add tests for adding P+Q with P.x!=Q.x and P.y=-Q.y
8c5d5f7 tests: Add failing unit test for #257 (bad addition formula)
5de4c5d gej_add_ge: fix degenerate case when computing P + (-lambda)P
bcf2fcf gej_add_ge: rearrange algebra
e2a07c7 Fix compilation with C++
873a453 Merge pull request #250
91eb0da Merge pull request #247
210ffed Use separate in and out pointers in `secp256k1_ec_pubkey_decompress`
a1d5ae1 Tiny optimization
729badf Merge pull request #210
2d5a186 Apply effective-affine trick to precomp
4f9791a Effective affine addition in EC multiplication
2b4cf41 Use pkg-config always when possible, with failover to manual checks for libcrypto
git-subtree-dir: src/secp256k1
git-subtree-split: 2bfb82b10edf0f0b0e366a12f94c8b21a914159d
58ef0ff doc: update docs for Tor listening (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
68ccdc4 doc: Mention Tor listening in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
09c1ae1 torcontrol improvements and fixes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2f796e5 Better error message if Tor version too old (Peter Todd)
8f4e67f net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
- Force AUTHCOOKIE size to be 32 bytes: This provides protection against
an attack where a process pretends to be Tor and uses the cookie
authentication method to nab arbitrary files such as the
wallet
- torcontrol logging
- fix cookie auth
- add HASHEDPASSWORD auth, fix fd leak when fwrite() fails
- better error reporting when cookie file is not ok
- better init/shutdown flow
- stop advertizing service when disconnected from tor control port
- COOKIE->SAFECOOKIE auth
69d373f Don't wipe the sigcache in TestBlockValidity (Pieter Wuille)
0b9e9dc Evict sigcache entries that are seen in a block (Pieter Wuille)
830e3f3 Make sigcache faster and more efficient (Pieter Wuille)
Previous text could be interpreted as the the _additional_ fee paid by
the result on top of the fee the original version paid, rather than the
correct interpretation: the absolute fee the resulting tx pays.
Wladimir J. van der Laan