UltrafastSecp256k1/bindings/python/README.md
vano be528aef66 audit: add AUDIT_COVERAGE.md + ASCII cleanup + CT fixes
- Add comprehensive AUDIT_COVERAGE.md documenting all 46 audit modules
  across 8 sections with ~1M+ total assertions
- Pure ASCII cleanup: remove all Unicode from source/cmake/script files
  (box-drawing, arrows, Greek, emoji, BOM, Georgian in comments)
- CT fix: RISC-V is_zero_mask (seqz+neg inline asm)
- CT fix: ct_compare general path (snez)
- All 188 files updated for ASCII-only compliance (Section 17 rule)
- Verified: 46/46 audit PASS on X64, ARM64, RISC-V (QEMU + Mars HW)
- Verified: 24/24 CTest PASS on X64
2026-02-25 19:14:21 +04:00

1.9 KiB

ufsecp -- Python

Python ctypes binding for UltrafastSecp256k1 -- high-performance secp256k1 elliptic curve cryptography.

Features

  • ECDSA -- sign, verify, recover, DER serialization (RFC 6979)
  • Schnorr -- BIP-340 sign/verify
  • ECDH -- compressed, x-only, raw shared secret
  • BIP-32 -- HD key derivation (master/derive/path/privkey/pubkey)
  • Taproot -- output key tweaking, verification (BIP-341)
  • Addresses -- P2PKH, P2WPKH, P2TR
  • WIF -- encode/decode
  • Hashing -- SHA-256 (hardware-accelerated), HASH160, tagged hash
  • Key tweaking -- negate, add, multiply

Install

pip install ufsecp

Requires the native libufsecp.so / ufsecp.dll / libufsecp.dylib alongside the package or set UFSECP_LIB env var.

Quick Start

from ufsecp import Ufsecp

with Ufsecp() as ctx:
    privkey = bytes(31) + b'\x01'
    pubkey = ctx.pubkey_create(privkey)
    msg_hash = ctx.sha256(b'hello')
    sig = ctx.ecdsa_sign(msg_hash, privkey)
    valid = ctx.ecdsa_verify(msg_hash, sig, pubkey)

ECDSA Recovery

rs = ctx.ecdsa_sign_recoverable(msg_hash, privkey)
recovered = ctx.ecdsa_recover(msg_hash, rs.signature, rs.recovery_id)

BIP-32 HD Derivation

master = ctx.bip32_master(seed)
child = ctx.bip32_derive_path(master, "m/44'/0'/0'/0/0")
child_priv = ctx.bip32_privkey(child)
child_pub = ctx.bip32_pubkey(child)

Taproot (BIP-341)

tok = ctx.taproot_output_key(xonly_pub)
tweaked = ctx.taproot_tweak_seckey(privkey)
valid = ctx.taproot_verify(tok.output_key_x, tok.parity, xonly_pub)

Architecture Note

The C ABI layer uses the fast (variable-time) implementation for maximum throughput. A constant-time (CT) layer with identical mathematical operations is available via the C++ headers for applications requiring timing-attack resistance.

License

MIT