* crypto: Add benchmarking code for signature schemes
This does a slight refactor for the key generation code. It now calls a
seperate unexported method to allow generation from a reader. I think this
will actually reduce time in generation, due to no longer initializing an
extra slice. This was needed in order to enable benchmarking.
This uses an internal package for the benchmarking code, so that this can
be standardized without being exported in the public API. The benchmarking
code is derived from agl/ed25519's benchmarking code, and has copied the
license over.
Closes#1984
* crypto/secp256k1: Add godocs, remove indirection in privkeys
The following was previously done for creating secp256k1 private keys:
First obtain privkey bytes. Then create a private key in the
underlying library, with scalar exponent equal to privKeyBytes.
(The method called was secp256k1.PrivKeyFromBytes,
fb90c334df/btcec/privkey.go (L21))
Then the private key was serialized using the underlying library, which just
returns back the bytes that comprised the scalar exponent, but padded to be
exactly 32 bytes.
fb90c334df/btcec/privkey.go (L70)
Thus the entire indirection of calling the underlying library can be avoided
by just ensuring that we pass in a 32 byte value. A test case has even be written
to show this more clearly in review.
* crypto/secp256k1: Address PR comments
Squash this commit
* crypto: Remove note about re-registering amino paths when unnecessary.
This commit should be squashed.
Currently the top level directory contains basically all of the code
for the crypto package. This PR moves the crypto code into submodules
in a similar manner to what `golang/x/crypto` does. This improves code
organization.
Ref discussion: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/1966Closes#1956
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