Add sanity check after key generation

Add a sanity check to prevent cosmic rays from flipping a bit in the
generated public key, or bugs in the elliptic curve code. This is
simply done by signing a (randomized) message, and verifying the
result.
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Pieter Wuille
2014-11-06 01:17:48 -08:00
parent cbf28c6619
commit d0c41a7350
5 changed files with 44 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ public:
//! Derive BIP32 child key.
bool Derive(CKey& keyChild, unsigned char ccChild[32], unsigned int nChild, const unsigned char cc[32]) const;
/**
* Verify thoroughly whether a private key and a public key match.
* This is done using a different mechanism than just regenerating it.
*/
bool VerifyPubKey(const CPubKey& vchPubKey) const;
//! Load private key and check that public key matches.
bool Load(CPrivKey& privkey, CPubKey& vchPubKey, bool fSkipCheck);