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what is the purpose of the ECDSA contract ( https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/utils/cryptography/ECDSA.sol ) ?
Contract looks like a wrapper around builtin solidity ecrecover function, without any benefits, or I've missed something?
Thank you.
If you read the code you will realize it provide some niceties:
Checking for malleable signatures As far as I know, malleable signatures are not possible in Geth since homestead ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3222/… . Am I missing something ? prepending a prefix Prefix is prepended in Geth by default for data signing operations github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/…
Support for 64 bytes compact signatures What exactly do you mean? ecrecover works the same way, with 64 bytes compact signatures Signature message manipulation, adding signature prefix what's the difference with Checking for malleable signatures, prepending a prefix ?