The last of the GLV patents in the US (US7110538B2) expired on September 25th, 2020 (and the European patents have been expired for awhile). IANAL, but from what I'm gathering endomorphisms are no longer patent-encumbered. Relevant story:
https://www.btctimes.com/news/hal-finneys-proposal-for-optimizing-bitcoin-to-be-enabled-in-bitcoin-core
bitcoin-core/secp256k1 is now switching to the endomorphism implementation by default:
bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826
I think it would make sense for us to do the same.
cc @fjarri @tuxxy
The last of the GLV patents in the US (US7110538B2) expired on September 25th, 2020 (and the European patents have been expired for awhile). IANAL, but from what I'm gathering endomorphisms are no longer patent-encumbered. Relevant story:
https://www.btctimes.com/news/hal-finneys-proposal-for-optimizing-bitcoin-to-be-enabled-in-bitcoin-core
bitcoin-core/secp256k1is now switching to the endomorphism implementation by default:bitcoin-core/secp256k1#826
I think it would make sense for us to do the same.
cc @fjarri @tuxxy