This also adds tests for all other ECDSA serialize/parsing functions.
The k, r, s and D values were sourced from test vectors on
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=285142.40 .
The compact signatures (aka, i values) were generated from bitcoinjslib, but they
are straight forward anyway.
An ECKey is a composition of a private key (D), a public key (Q) and its
compression flag.
These functions gave the impression of serialization of this
composition, when really they only serialized `D`.
They have therefore been removed in favour of always using a sane
serialization format (WIF) that matches the needed behaviour.
If a user needs the previous functionality, simply use `privKey.D.*`
instead of `privKey.*`, as BigInteger supports `*Buffer/*Hex` functions
as expected.
The use of fixtures allows for more behavioural driven tests and simpler
addition of more test cases in future.
However, as ECPubKey is just a wrapper around other strenuously tested
modules, the test data is currently limited to testing a subset of the
total wrapper.
This should probably be done better by using mocked out modules instead.
After a long IRC discussion, it was decided that the use of direct
filepaths instead of the module is a more pure form of testing ,
although it may provide less overall coverage than the mixed integration
style imports used previously.
This will need to be remedied by further integration testing in
/test/integration.
It is favoured to compose the scriptSig manually using
Script.createP2SHScriptSig and Script.createMultisigScriptSig.
Added a test to verify that createMultisigScriptSig throws when not
enough signatures a provided and the redeemScript is given.
A Transaction (and its subsequent scripts) do not carry any network
specific information in the Bitcoin protocol.
Therefore they can not (without further context) produce the network
specific constants for the generation of the base58 Addresses.
As TransactionOut.address is used heavily throughout Wallet and other
areas of the library, this could not be entirely removed without a large
number of changes.
For now, TransactionOut.address is only defined in the case of
Tx.addOutput being used directly:
Transaction.addOutput(address, value)
