A library for 'bitcoin cryptography'.
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btclib is a Python3 type annotated library intended for teaching, learning, and using bitcoin, its blockchain, and the associated elliptic curve cryptography.
Originally developed for the Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology course at the University of Milano-Bicocca, btclib is not intended for production environments: it is often refactored for improved clarity, without care for backward compatibility; moreover, some of its algorithms could be broken using side-channel attacks.
btclib does not have external requirements or dependencies; to install (and upgrade) it:
python -m pip install --upgrade btclib
The library is rigorously and extensively tested: the test suite covers 100% of the code base and reproduces results from both informal and major reference sources. Included features are:
- modulo algebra functions (gcd, inverse, legendre symbol, square root)
- octets / integer / varint / point conversion functions
- elliptic curve class
- fast algebra implemented using Jacobian coordinates
- double scalar multiplication (Straus's algorithm, also known as Shamir's trick)
- multi scalar multiplication (Bos-coster's algorithm)
- point simmetry solution: odd/even, low/high, and quadratic residue
- elliptic curves: SEC 1 v1 and v2, NIST, Brainpool, and low cardinality test curves
- ECDSA signature with (transaction) DER encoding
- ECDSA signature with (message) compact encoding: standard p2pkh and BIP137/Electrum extensions to p2wpkh and p2wpkh-p2sh
- EC Schnorr signature (according to
BIP340
bitcoin standardization)
- batch validation
- threshold signature (see test-suite)
- MuSig multi-signature (see test-suite)
- Borromean ring signature
- RFC 6979 to make signature schemes deterministic
- Sign-to-contract commitment
- Diffie-Hellman
- Pedersen committment
- Base58 encoding/decoding
- p2pkh/p2sh addresses and WIFs
- Bech32 encoding/decoding
- p2wpkh/p2wsh native SegWit addresses and their legacy p2sh-wrapped versions
- BIP32 hierarchical deterministic key chains
- BIP39 wordlists and mnemonic for generating deterministic keys
- Electrum standard for mnemonic
- Script encoding/decoding
- nulldata, p2pk, p2ms, p2pkh, p2sh, p2wpkh, and p2wsh ScriptPubKeys
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