* core, crypto, params: implement CREATE2 evm instrction

* core/vm: add opcode to string mapping

* core: remove past fork checking

* core, crypto: use option2 to generate new address

Our original wrapper code had two parts. One taken from a third
party repository (who took it from upstream Go) licensed under
BSD-3. The second written by Jeff, Felix and Gustav, licensed
under LGPL. This made this package problematic to use from the
outside.

With the agreement of the original copyright holders, this commit
changes the license of the LGPL portions of the code to BSD-3:

---
I agree changing from LGPL to a BSD style license.

Jeff
---
Hey guys,

My preference would be to relicense to GNUBL, but I'm also OK with BSD.

Cheers,
Gustav
---
Felix Lange (fjl):
I would approve anything that makes our licensing less complicated
---

ToECDSAPub was unsafe because it returned a non-nil key with nil X, Y in
case of invalid input. This change replaces ToECDSAPub with
UnmarshalPubkey across the codebase.

The parameter `rand` is unused in `PrivateKey.Decrypt`. Decryption in
the ECIES encryption scheme is deterministic, so randomness isn't
needed.

* crypto/bn256: full switchover to cloudflare's code

* crypto/bn256: only use cloudflare for optimized architectures

* crypto/bn256: upstream fallback for non-optimized code

* .travis, build: drop support for Go 1.8 (need type aliases)

* crypto/bn256/cloudflare: enable curve mul lattice optimization

* core/vm, crypto/bn256: switch over to cloudflare library

* crypto/bn256: unmarshal constraint + start pure go impl

* crypto/bn256: combo cloudflare and google lib

* travis: drop 386 test job

Fixes #15744

* crypto: ensure that VerifySignature rejects malleable signatures

It already rejected them when using libsecp256k1, make sure the nocgo
version does the same thing.

* crypto: simplify check

* crypto: fix build

This adds the inverse to DecompressPubkey and improves a few minor
details in crypto/secp256k1.

With this change,

    key, err := crypto.HexToECDSA("000000...")
    
returns nil key and an error instead of a non-nil key with nil X
and Y inside. Issue found by @guidovranken.

We need those operations for p2p/enr.

Also upgrade github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec to the latest version
and improve BenchmarkSha3. The benchmark printed extra output 
that confused tools like benchstat and ignored N.

Generator in the current lib uses -2 as the y point when doing
ScalarBaseMult, this makes it so that points/signatures generated
from libs like py_ecc don't match/validate as pretty much all
other libs (including libsnark) have (1, 2) as the standard
generator.

This does not affect consensus as the generator is never used in
the VM, points are always explicitly defined and there is not
ScalarBaseMult op - it only makes it so that doing "import
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto/bn256" doesn't generate
bad points in userland tools.

* crypto: fix megacheck warnings

* crypto/ecies: remove ASN.1 support

Also add the package to the license tool ignore list.

This commit is a preparation for the upcoming metropolis hardfork. It
prepares the state, core and vm packages such that integration with
metropolis becomes less of a hassle.

* Difficulty calculation requires header instead of individual
  parameters
* statedb.StartRecord renamed to statedb.Prepare and added Finalise
  method required by metropolis, which removes unwanted accounts from
  the state (i.e. selfdestruct)
* State keeps record of destructed objects (in addition to dirty
  objects)
* core/vm pre-compiles may now return errors
* core/vm pre-compiles gas check now take the full byte slice as argument
  instead of just the size
* core/vm now keeps several hard-fork instruction tables instead of a
  single instruction table and removes the need for hard-fork checks in
  the instructions
* core/vm contains a empty restruction function which is added in
  preparation of metropolis write-only mode operations
* Adds the bn256 curve
* Adds and sets the metropolis chain config block parameters (2^64-1)

* common/math: optimize PaddedBigBytes, use it more

name              old time/op    new time/op    delta
PaddedBigBytes-8    71.1ns ± 5%    46.1ns ± 1%  -35.15%  (p=0.000 n=20+19)

name              old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
PaddedBigBytes-8     48.0B ± 0%     32.0B ± 0%  -33.33%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)

* all: unify big.Int zero checks

Various checks were in use. This commit replaces them all with Int.Sign,
which is cheaper and less code.

eg templates:

    func before(x *big.Int) bool { return x.BitLen() == 0 }
    func after(x *big.Int) bool  { return x.Sign() == 0 }

    func before(x *big.Int) bool { return x.BitLen() > 0 }
    func after(x *big.Int) bool  { return x.Sign() != 0 }

    func before(x *big.Int) int { return x.Cmp(common.Big0) }
    func after(x *big.Int) int  { return x.Sign() }

* common/math, crypto/secp256k1: make ReadBits public in package math

* common: remove CurrencyToString

Move denomination values to params instead.

* common: delete dead code

* common: move big integer operations to common/math

This commit consolidates all big integer operations into common/math and
adds tests and documentation.

There should be no change in semantics for BigPow, BigMin, BigMax, S256,
U256, Exp and their behaviour is now locked in by tests.

The BigD, BytesToBig and Bytes2Big functions don't provide additional
value, all uses are replaced by new(big.Int).SetBytes().

BigToBytes is now called PaddedBigBytes, its minimum output size
parameter is now specified as the number of bytes instead of bits. The
single use of this function is in the EVM's MSTORE instruction.

Big and String2Big are replaced by ParseBig, which is slightly stricter.
It previously accepted leading zeros for hexadecimal inputs but treated
decimal inputs as octal if a leading zero digit was present.

ParseUint64 is used in places where String2Big was used to decode a
uint64.

The new functions MustParseBig and MustParseUint64 are now used in many
places where parsing errors were previously ignored.

* common: delete unused big integer variables

* accounts/abi: replace uses of BytesToBig with use of encoding/binary

* common: remove BytesToBig

* common: remove Bytes2Big

* common: remove BigTrue

* cmd/utils: add BigFlag and use it for error-checked integer flags

While here, remove environment variable processing for DirectoryFlag
because we don't use it.

* core: add missing error checks in genesis block parser

* common: remove String2Big

* cmd/evm: use utils.BigFlag

* common/math: check for 256 bit overflow in ParseBig

This is supposed to prevent silent overflow/truncation of values in the
genesis block JSON. Without this check, a genesis block that set a
balance larger than 256 bits would lead to weird behaviour in the VM.

* cmd/utils: fixup import

* vendor: add github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec

* crypto: add btcec fallback for sign/recover without cgo

This commit adds a non-cgo fallback implementation of secp256k1
operations.

* crypto, core/vm: remove wrappers for sha256, ripemd160

- Use defined constants instead of hard-coding their integer value.
- Allocate secp256k1 structs on the C stack instead of converting []byte
- Remove dead code

go get github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign
ineffassign .