I have often made the error of using a public key rather than the hash of the
public key when creating an address, leading to invalid addresses. I'm sure I'm
not the only one. This commit follows the principle of "fail early, fail often"
and simply throws an error if you try to insert something other than 20 bytes
long when creating an address, which would be the case when using a public key.
This way that common mistake should be reduced.
eval is unsafe, and the way it was being used in Script and Script interpreter
was not a good enough reason. This commit removes both uses of eval, then
replaces all uses of OP_XXX with Opcode.map.OP_XXX since there's no reason for
those constants to be global.
In the browser, sometimes the config for bignum wasn't being set up if (somehow
... still not sure how this is possible) you use bitcore without using
require('bitcore'). This would by pass the code that set the config for bignum.
Solution is to put the config for bignum in bignum itself (in the browser).
This fixes, in particular, an issue with base58 where it was depending on
bignum having the proper config.
Also I add the base58 tests to run in the browser which they weren't
previously.
And finally I add a small test for Bignum in the browser that makes sure the
config is set properly.
Manuel Araoz
Ryan X. Charles
Gustavo Cortez
Devrandom
Gabe
Rich Morgan
Matias Alejo Garcia
Gordon Hall
Rich Apodaca
olalonde