# std.crypto.ecc: add support for the secp256k1 curve \(\#11880\) · gitcafe/zig

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Requested revision: 234ccb4a5088cd6fa06144d7ba1aceab0596f1cc

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Commit: 234ccb4a5088cd6fa06144d7ba1aceab0596f1cc

Tree: 935448b28b2b694f8066c59e410efae0db737af1

Author: Frank Denis

Committer: GitHub

## Message

```
std.crypto.ecc: add support for the secp256k1 curve (#11880)

std.crypto.ecc: add support for the secp256k1 curve

Usage of the secp256k1 elliptic curve recently grew exponentially,
since this is the curve used by Bitcoin and other popular blockchains
such as Ethereum.

With this, Zig has support for all the widely deployed elliptic curves
today.
```

## Parents

- [ea13437ac575329f1198f8422b856ebfcadff4c8](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/ea13437ac575329f1198f8422b856ebfcadff4c8?format=markdown)

[Source at this commit](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/tree/234ccb4a5088cd6fa06144d7ba1aceab0596f1cc?format=markdown)