Benchmarks for deriving child public keys from an extended pub key

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Benchmarks for deriving child public keys from an extended pub key #69

Closed mrkent closed 8 years ago

mrkent commented 8 years ago

Is it feasible to use a xpub to derive millions of child keys (for example, for the purpose of generating vanity keys)?

Alternatively, are there benchmarks published of the existing benchmark tests?

davecgh commented 8 years ago

Not sure how I missed this question, but I just now saw it. I don't think there are any benchmarks published, but the code is based on btcec which is quite a bit faster than OpenSSL's implementation, so I don't believe there is any reason it couldn't be used that way.

mrkent commented 8 years ago

Thanks.