hdkeychain: Use secp256k1 privkey to pubkey method. #2156
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This is rebased on #2155.
This makes use of the
PubKey
method onsecp256k1.PrivateKey
to convert a private key to a public key instead of manually performing the conversion.This is desirable since
secp256k1
provides the method specifically for this purpose and it also has the benefit of allowingsecp256k1
to perform the task without round tripping through big integers which results in slightly faster derivation.The following benchmarks show a before and after comparison of the affected operations: