Meanwhile…
The decade-long engineering efforts toward libsecp256k1, a minimal from scratch Bitcoin-specific library, result in an 800% speed up over OpenSSL while also:
- removing a problematic dependency
- avoiding side channel attacks
- being fully deterministic
Sebastian Falbesoner via


Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379
This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

