From 204524117c1df0265aeb03ee60016c2db069cd23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:33:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make Secp256k1::verify() static

This avoids the overhead of creating and seeding a Fortuna just to do verification.
---
 src/secp256k1.rs | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/secp256k1.rs b/src/secp256k1.rs
index c843b9c..00134d0 100644
--- a/src/secp256k1.rs
+++ b/src/secp256k1.rs
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ impl Secp256k1 {
 
     /// Checks that `sig` is a valid ECDSA signature for `msg` using the public
     /// key `pubkey`. Returns `Ok(true)` on success.
-    pub fn verify(&self, msg: &[u8], sig: &[u8], pk: &key::PublicKey) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn verify(msg: &[u8], sig: &[u8], pk: &key::PublicKey) -> Result<()> {
+        init();  // This is a static function, so we have to init
         let res = unsafe {
             ffi::secp256k1_ecdsa_verify(msg.as_ptr(), msg.len() as c_int,
                                         sig.as_ptr(), sig.len() as c_int,