release state of library vs bitcoin-core #264

issue nessence openend this issue on July 2, 2015
  1. nessence commented at 5:15 pm on July 2, 2015: none
    Is there particular commit of this repos which can be used for production, or is github.com/bitcoin the best code for applications to use?
  2. sipa commented at 5:21 pm on July 2, 2015: contributor

    There is no formal release of libsecp256k1 yet, and using it for production purposes is discouraged.

    Bitcoin Core includes a pre-release version of this library, but only for signing, as that already provides benefits (in terms of side channel attack protection and deterministic signing) over the old OpenSSL code. However, that’s only reasonable because signing has much lower risks, while verification is still done by the old code.

  3. sipa commented at 5:21 pm on July 2, 2015: contributor
    In particular, the API is not stable yet.
  4. sipa commented at 0:37 am on August 28, 2015: contributor
    Closing this issue in favor of #286.
  5. sipa closed this on Aug 28, 2015


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