d3e8adfada util: remove c-string interfaces for DecodeBase58{Check} (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
This micro-PR gets rid of base58 function interfaces that are redundant in terms of c-string / std::string variants; the c-string interface for `DecodeBase58Check` is completely unused outside the base58 module, while the c-string interface for `DecodeBase58` is only used in unit tests, where an implicit conversion to std::string is not problematic.
ACKs for top commit:
practicalswift:
ACK d3e8adfada -- patch looks correct
laanwj:
Code review ACK d3e8adfada
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Also remove a needless loop in DecodeBase58 to prune zeroes in the base256
output of the conversion. The number of zeroes is implied by keeping track
explicitly of the length during the loop.
This patch removes the need for the intermediary Base58 type
CBitcoinAddress, by providing {Encode,Decode,IsValid}Destination
function that directly operate on the conversion between strings
and CTxDestination.
- Update comments in checkpoints to be doxygen compatible
- Update comments in checkqueue to be doxygen compatible
- Update coins to be doxygen compatible
- Fix comment typo in crypter.h
- Update licenses/copyright dates
Closes#5325#5184#5183#5182
Use misc methods of avoiding unnecesary header includes.
Replace int typedefs with int##_t from stdint.h.
Replace PRI64[xdu] with PRI[xdu]64 from inttypes.h.
Normalize QT_VERSION ifs where possible.
Resolve some indirect dependencies as direct ones.
Remove extern declarations from .cpp files.
The new class is accessed via the Params() method and holds
most things that vary between main, test and regtest networks.
The regtest mode has two purposes, one is to run the
bitcoind/bitcoinj comparison tool which compares two separate
implementations of the Bitcoin protocol looking for divergence.
The other is that when run, you get a local node which can mine
a single block instantly, which is highly convenient for testing
apps during development as there's no need to wait 10 minutes for
a block on the testnet.
As memset() can be optimized out by a compiler it should not be used in
privacy/security relevant code parts. OpenSSL provides the safe
OPENSSL_cleanse() function in crypto.h, which perfectly does the job of
clean and overwrite data.
For details see: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0178/
- change memset() to OPENSSL_cleanse() where appropriate
- change a hard-coded number from netbase.cpp into a sizeof()
