Always create 70 byte signatures with low R values

When extra entropy is not specified by the caller, CKey::Sign will
now always create a signature that has a low R value and is at most
70 bytes. The resulting signature on the stack will be 71 bytes when
the sighash byte is included.

Using low R signatures means that the resulting DER encoded signature
will never need to have additional padding to account for high R
values.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/key.h b/src/key.h
index f573a18a4e..ce49b3df02 100644
--- a/src/key.h
+++ b/src/key.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public:
      * Create a DER-serialized signature.
      * The test_case parameter tweaks the deterministic nonce.
      */
-    bool Sign(const uint256& hash, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig, uint32_t test_case = 0) const;
+    bool Sign(const uint256& hash, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig, bool grind = true, uint32_t test_case = 0) const;
 
     /**
      * Create a compact signature (65 bytes), which allows reconstructing the used public key.