crypto: add DecompressPubkey, VerifySignature (#15615)

We need those operations for p2p/enr.

Also upgrade github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec to the latest version
and improve BenchmarkSha3. The benchmark printed extra output 
that confused tools like benchstat and ignored N.
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Felix Lange
2017-12-06 16:07:08 +01:00
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commit e85b68ef53
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@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ const (
pubkeyHybrid byte = 0x6 // y_bit + x coord + y coord
)
// IsCompressedPubKey returns true the the passed serialized public key has
// been encoded in compressed format, and false otherwise.
func IsCompressedPubKey(pubKey []byte) bool {
// The public key is only compressed if it is the correct length and
// the format (first byte) is one of the compressed pubkey values.
return len(pubKey) == PubKeyBytesLenCompressed &&
(pubKey[0]&^byte(0x1) == pubkeyCompressed)
}
// ParsePubKey parses a public key for a koblitz curve from a bytestring into a
// ecdsa.Publickey, verifying that it is valid. It supports compressed,
// uncompressed and hybrid signature formats.