# coincurve

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This library provides well-tested Python bindings for [libsecp256k1][], the heavily optimized
C library used by [Bitcoin Core][] for operations on the elliptic curve [secp256k1][].

## Features

- Fastest available implementation (more than 10x faster than OpenSSL)
- Clean, easy to use API
- Frequent updates from the development version of [libsecp256k1][]
- Linux, macOS, and Windows all have binary packages for multiple architectures
- Linux & macOS use GMP for faster computation
- Deterministic signatures as specified by [RFC 6979][]
- Non-malleable signatures (lower-S form) by default
- Secure, non-malleable [ECDH][] implementation

## License

`coincurve` is distributed under the terms of any of the following licenses:

- [MIT](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)
- [Apache-2.0](https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)

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