KEP-1598: NIST P256 support

bluzelle · Jul 22, 2019 · b4f6610 · b4f6610
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Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/scripts/generate-key b/scripts/generate-key
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ prefix=${1:-`pwd`/.state}
 
 mkdir -p $prefix
 
-# This is the elliptic curve used by Ethereum. Technically, this identity is an
-# Ethereum account.
-openssl ecparam -name secp256k1 -genkey -noout -out $prefix/private-key.pem
+# This is a very popular curve, which openssl has special optimizations for
+openssl ecparam -name secp256r1 -genkey -noout -out $prefix/private-key.pem
 echo "Private key written to "$prefix"/private-key.pem"
 
 openssl ec -in $prefix/private-key.pem -pubout -out $prefix/public-key.pem > /dev/null 2>&1