Title: Version 0.5.4 released Post by: Luke-Jr on April 16, 2012, 01:21:02 AM Bitcoin version 0.5.4 is now available for download at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.4/ NOTE: 0.5.4rc3 is being renamed to 0.5.4 final with no changes. This is a bugfix-only release in the 0.5.x series, plus a few protocol updates. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious: http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.4#.tar.gz PROTOCOL UPDATES
BUG FIXES
Thanks to everybody who contributed code or helped test this release: Luke Dashjr Pieter Wuille Wladimir J. van der Laan Gavin Andresen Matt Corallo Philip Kaufmann Alistair Buxton Joel Kaartinen Patrick Schneider Vegard Nossum Title: Re: Version 0.5.4 released Post by: Etlase2 on April 16, 2012, 01:31:39 AM Quote Support for validating message signatures produced with compressed public keys. Is this referring to ECDSA signatures that have the public key encoded in them so that the public key is not necessary? Or just some compression scheme for ECDSA? I thought most implementations of ECDSA already employed public key compression. Title: Re: Version 0.5.4 released Post by: Luke-Jr on April 16, 2012, 01:36:35 AM Quote Support for validating message signatures produced with compressed public keys. Is this referring to ECDSA signatures that have the public key encoded in them so that the public key is not necessary? Or just some compression scheme for ECDSA? I thought most implementations of ECDSA already employed public key compression. |