Module bitcoin::key

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Bitcoin keys.

This module provides keys used in Bitcoin that can be roundtrip (de)serialized.

Re-exports

Modules

  • constants
    Constants related to the API and the underlying curve.

Structs

  • Keypair
    Opaque data structure that holds a keypair consisting of a secret and a public key.
  • PrivateKey
    A Bitcoin ECDSA private key
  • PubkeyHash
    A hash of a public key.
  • PublicKey
    A Bitcoin ECDSA public key
  • Secp256k1
    The secp256k1 engine, used to execute all signature operations.
  • SortKey
    An opaque return type for PublicKey::to_sort_key
  • TweakedKeypair
    Tweaked BIP-340 key pair
  • TweakedPublicKey
    Tweaked BIP-340 X-coord-only public key
  • WPubkeyHash
    SegWit version of a public key hash.
  • XOnlyPublicKey
    An x-only public key, used for verification of Taproot signatures and serialized according to BIP-340.

Enums

  • Error
    A key-related error.
  • Parity
    Represents the parity passed between FFI function calls.

Traits

  • TapTweak
    A trait for tweaking BIP340 key types (x-only public keys and key pairs).
  • Verification
    Marker trait for indicating that an instance of Secp256k1 can be used for verification.

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