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I`m currently implementing an ECDSA library based on curves like secp256k1. I would like to test it using some test vectors, like http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/dss/ecdsatestvectors.zip . Is there any place where I can get some vectors for testing encryption with that curve?

Example vector has this structure:

var testVectors = []struct {
msg    string
Qx, Qy string
r, s   string
ok     bool
}

and looks like this (for P224 curve):

{
    "96b2b6536f6df29be8567a72528aceeaccbaa66c66c534f3868ca9778b02faadb182e4ed34662e73b9d52ecbe9dc8e875fc05033c493108b380689ebf47e5b062e6a0cdb3dd34ce5fe347d92768d72f7b9b377c20aea927043b509c078ed2467d7113405d2ddd458811e6faf41c403a2a239240180f1430a6f4330df5d77de37",
    "851e3100368a22478a0029353045ae40d1d8202ef4d6533cfdddafd8",
    "205302ac69457dd345e86465afa72ee8c74ca97e2b0b999aec1f10c2",
    "4450c2d38b697e990721aa2dbb56578d32b4f5aeb3b9072baa955ee0",
    "e26d4b589166f7b4ba4b1c8fce823fa47aad22f8c9c396b8c6526e12",
    false,
},
{
    "86778dbb4a068a01047a8d245d632f636c11d2ad350740b36fad90428b454ad0f120cb558d12ea5c8a23db595d87543d06d1ef489263d01ee529871eb68737efdb8ff85bc7787b61514bed85b7e01d6be209e0a4eb0db5c8df58a5c5bf706d76cb2bdf7800208639e05b89517155d11688236e6a47ed37d8e5a2b1e0adea338e",
    "ad5bda09d319a717c1721acd6688d17020b31b47eef1edea57ceeffc",
    "c8ce98e181770a7c9418c73c63d01494b8b80a41098c5ea50692c984",
    "de5558c257ab4134e52c19d8db3b224a1899cbd08cc508ce8721d5e9",
    "745db7af5a477e5046705c0a5eff1f52cb94a79d481f0c5a5e108ecd",
    true,
},
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DSA (and ECDSA) is not an encryption algorithm, but a signature algorithm. And this signature is not deterministic ... the best we could do is to give some example signatures which you could verify, or some sample random $k$ together with the signature created from this. – Paŭlo Ebermann♦ Oct 1 '11 at 15:12
I already have a testing architecture in place from a library implementing curves like P224, but I can't find any external data to test my implementation against. It should work, I can successfully generate, sign and verify anything with it, but comparing it with someone else's implementation would be desirable. – ThePiachu Oct 1 '11 at 19:07
You could try and find as many corner cases as possible, regarding the input and internal random number generation. Then you could test against e.g. bouncy castle, which contains a ECDSA implementation as well as all the Secp curves (in the ASN.1 part of the source). – owlstead Jan 2 '12 at 17:03

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