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Change EC backend #21

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@ofek

Consider switching from the current OpenSSL hack/pure Python implementation to https://github.com/ofek/coincurve.

Features:

  • Clean API
  • Uses newest version of libsecp256k1
  • Support for Windows
  • Linux, macOS, and Windows all have binary packages for both 64 and 32-bit architectures
  • Linux & macOS use GMP for faster computation
  • Endomorphism optimization is enabled
  • Implements a fix for https://bugs.python.org/issue28150 to support Python 3.6+ on macOS

See:

raiden-network/raiden#534
ethereum/pyethereum#713

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