Add key generation support #41
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Have you seen the support in bitcoin.wallet for this functionality? bitcoin.core is meant to only contain consensus-critical code; ECDSA secret keys aren't consensus critical. |
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I'm working on cross-chain transactions, so want to avoid key generation in bitcoind/dogecoind as it could lead to confusion. Given discussion in #39 it probably makes sense to close this, and I'll simply put the support into whatever altcoin lib I write instead. |
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Adds support for generating ECDSA keys, and for extracting just the secret bytes (as opposed to the full DER encoded private key) so that generated keys can be used to initialise CBitcoinSecret instances.