Experimental module for ECDSA adaptor signatures.
Experimental module for ECDSA sign-to-contract.
Experimental module for Confidential Assets (Pedersen commitments, range proofs, and surjection proofs).
Experimental module for Bulletproofs++ range proofs.
Experimental module for address whitelisting.

Experimental features are made available for testing and review by the community. The APIs of these features should not be considered stable.

Build steps

Obtaining and verifying

The git tag for each release (e.g. v0.6.0) is GPG-signed by one of the maintainers. For a fully verified build of this project, it is recommended to obtain this repository via git, obtain the GPG keys of the signing maintainer(s), and then verify the release tag's signature using git.

This can be done with the following steps:

Obtain the GPG keys listed in SECURITY.md.
If possible, cross-reference these key IDs with another source controlled by its owner (e.g. social media, personal website). This is to mitigate the unlikely case that incorrect content is being presented by this repository.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1

Check out the latest release tag, e.g.
```
git checkout v0.6.0
```

Use git to verify the GPG signature:

% git tag -v v0.6.0 | grep -C 3 'Good signature'

gpg: Signature made Mon 04 Nov 2024 12:14:44 PM EST
gpg:                using RSA key 4BBB845A6F5A65A69DFAEC234861DBF262123605
gpg: Good signature from "Jonas Nick <jonas@n-ck.net>" [unknown]
gpg:                 aka "Jonas Nick <jonasd.nick@gmail.com>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 36C7 1A37 C9D9 88BD E825  08D9 B1A7 0E4F 8DCD 0366
     Subkey fingerprint: 4BBB 845A 6F5A 65A6 9DFA  EC23 4861 DBF2 6212 3605

Building with Autotools

$ ./autogen.sh       # Generate a ./configure script
$ ./configure        # Generate a build system
$ make               # Run the actual build process
$ make check         # Run the test suite
$ sudo make install  # Install the library into the system (optional)

To compile optional modules (such as Schnorr signatures), you need to run ./configure with additional flags (such as --enable-module-schnorrsig). Run ./configure --help to see the full list of available flags. For experimental modules, you will also need --enable-experimental as well as a flag for each individual module, e.g. --enable-module-rangeproof.

Building with CMake (experimental)

To maintain a pristine source tree, CMake encourages to perform an out-of-source build by using a separate dedicated build tree.

Building on POSIX systems

$ cmake -B build              # Generate a build system in subdirectory "build"
$ cmake --build build         # Run the actual build process
$ ctest --test-dir build      # Run the test suite
$ sudo cmake --install build  # Install the library into the system (optional)

To compile optional modules (such as Schnorr signatures), you need to run cmake with additional flags (such as -DSECP256K1_ENABLE_MODULE_SCHNORRSIG=ON). Run cmake -B build -LH or ccmake -B build to see the full list of available flags.

Cross compiling

To alleviate issues with cross compiling, preconfigured toolchain files are available in the cmake directory. For example, to cross compile for Windows:

$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x86_64-w64-mingw32.toolchain.cmake

To cross compile for Android with NDK (using NDK's toolchain file, and assuming the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable has been set):

$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="${ANDROID_NDK_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake" -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_PLATFORM=28

Building on Windows

To build on Windows with Visual Studio, a proper generator must be specified for a new build tree.

The following example assumes using of Visual Studio 2022 and CMake v3.21+.

In "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022":

>cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -B build
>cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo

Usage examples

Usage examples can be found in the examples directory. To compile them you need to configure with --enable-examples.

To compile the Schnorr signature and ECDH examples, you need to enable the corresponding module by providing a flag to the configure script, for example --enable-module-schnorrsig.

Benchmark

If configured with --enable-benchmark (which is the default), binaries for benchmarking the libsecp256k1-zkp functions will be present in the root directory after the build.

To print the benchmark result to the command line:

$ ./bench_name

To create a CSV file for the benchmark result :

$ ./bench_name | sed '2d;s/ \{1,\}//g' > bench_name.csv

Reporting a vulnerability

See SECURITY.md

Contributing to libsecp256k1

See CONTRIBUTING.md

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