[Bitcoin-development] Deprecating "midstate" in getwork?

[John Smith]

Nils,

Sounds good. I'm also doubtful of depending on two crypto libraries when
OpenSSL does perfectly well.

However, losing compatibility with miners is not very nice. Is there really
not a way to compute midstate with OpenSSL?

JS

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Nils Schneider <nils at nilsschneider.net>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I'd like to simplify the internal reference miner and remove all
> dependencies on cryptopp (it's the only place we use cryptopp instead of
> OpenSSL).
>
> Unfortunately, cryptopp is also used to calculate getwork "midstate".
> This field is redundant and the miner could easily calculate it from the
> blockheader so I'd like to remove it.
>
> Any thoughts? Where should such a change should be announced so all
> miners can be upgraded?
>
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