Merge pull request #1546 from rnicoll/1.17-auxpow1.17-dev

1.17 AuxPoW support

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Daniel Kraft
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+# Basic code for working with auxpow.  This is used for the regtests (e.g. from
+# auxpow_testing.py), but also for contrib/auxpow/getwork-wrapper.py.
+
+import binascii
+import codecs
+import hashlib
+
+def constructAuxpow (block):
+  """
+  Starts to construct a minimal auxpow, ready to be mined.  Returns the fake
+  coinbase tx and the unmined parent block header as hex strings.
+  """
+
+  block = codecs.encode (block, 'ascii')
+
+  # Start by building the merge-mining coinbase.  The merkle tree
+  # consists only of the block hash as root.
+  coinbase = b"fabe" + binascii.hexlify (b"m" * 2)
+  coinbase += block
+  coinbase += b"01000000" + (b"00" * 4)
+
+  # Construct "vector" of transaction inputs.
+  vin = b"01"
+  vin += (b"00" * 32) + (b"ff" * 4)
+  vin += codecs.encode ("%02x" % (len (coinbase) // 2), "ascii") + coinbase
+  vin += (b"ff" * 4)
+
+  # Build up the full coinbase transaction.  It consists only
+  # of the input and has no outputs.
+  tx = b"01000000" + vin + b"00" + (b"00" * 4)
+  txHash = doubleHashHex (tx)
+
+  # Construct the parent block header.  It need not be valid, just good
+  # enough for auxpow purposes.
+  header = b"01000000"
+  header += b"00" * 32
+  header += reverseHex (txHash)
+  header += b"00" * 4
+  header += b"00" * 4
+  header += b"00" * 4
+
+  return (tx.decode ('ascii'), header.decode ('ascii'))
+
+def finishAuxpow (tx, header):
+  """
+  Constructs the finished auxpow hex string based on the mined header.
+  """
+
+  blockhash = doubleHashHex (header)
+
+  # Build the MerkleTx part of the auxpow.
+  auxpow = codecs.encode (tx, 'ascii')
+  auxpow += blockhash
+  auxpow += b"00"
+  auxpow += b"00" * 4
+
+  # Extend to full auxpow.
+  auxpow += b"00"
+  auxpow += b"00" * 4
+  auxpow += header
+
+  return auxpow.decode ("ascii")
+
+def doubleHashHex (data):
+  """
+  Perform Bitcoin's Double-SHA256 hash on the given hex string.
+  """
+
+  hasher = hashlib.sha256 ()
+  hasher.update (binascii.unhexlify (data))
+  data = hasher.digest ()
+
+  hasher = hashlib.sha256 ()
+  hasher.update (data)
+
+  return reverseHex (hasher.hexdigest ())
+
+def reverseHex (data):
+  """
+  Flip byte order in the given data (hex string).
+  """
+
+  b = bytearray (binascii.unhexlify (data))
+  b.reverse ()
+
+  return binascii.hexlify (b)
+
+def getworkByteswap (data):
+  """
+  Run the byte-order swapping step necessary for working with getwork.
+  """
+
+  data = bytearray (data)
+  assert len (data) % 4 == 0
+  for i in range (0, len (data), 4):
+    data[i], data[i + 3] = data[i + 3], data[i]
+    data[i + 1], data[i + 2] = data[i + 2], data[i + 1]
+
+  return data