* whisper: salt removed from AES encryption
* whisper: padding format updated
* whisper: padding test added
* whisper: padding refactored, tests fixed
* whisper: padding test updated
* whisper: wnode bugfix
* whisper: send/receive protocol updated
* whisper: minor update
* whisper: bugfix in test
* whisper: updated parameter names and comments
* whisper: functions renamed
* whisper: minor refactoring

* whisper: GetMessages fixed; size restriction updated
* whisper: made PoW and MaxMsgSize customizable
* whisper: test added
* whisper: sym key management changed
* whisper: identity management refactored
* whisper: API refactoring (Post and Filter)
* whisper: big refactoring complete
* whisper: spelling fix
* whisper: variable topic size allowed for a filter
* whisper: final update
* whisper: formatting
* whisper: file exchange introduced in wnode
* whisper: bugfix
* whisper: API updated + new tests
* whisper: statistics updated
* whisper: wnode server updated
* whisper: allowed filtering for variable topic size
* whisper: tests added
* whisper: resolving merge conflicts
* whisper: refactoring (documenting mostly)
* whsiper: tests fixed
* whisper: down cased error messages
* whisper: documenting the API functions
* whisper: logging fixed
* whisper: fixed wnode parameters
* whisper: logs fixed (typos)

* 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

* whisper: wnode updated for tests with geth

* whisper: updated processing of incoming messages

* whisper: symmetric encryption updated

* whisper: filter id type changed to enhance security

* whisper: allow filter without topic for asymmetric encryption

* whisper: POW updated

* whisper: logging updated

* whisper: spellchecker update

* whisper: error handling changed

* whisper: JSON field names fixed

* 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

* whisper: mailserver test introduced, refactoring

* whisper: validation test updated

* whisper: max number of peers fixed

* whisper: verification bug fixed

* whisper: esthetic fix

* whisper: interface changed to simplify the transition to v5

* whisper: preparation for version switch

go get github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign
ineffassign .

This change couldn't be automated because HexNumber was used for numbers
of all sizes.

* whisper: refactored message processing
* whisper: final polishing
* whisper: logging updated
* whisper: moved the check, changed the default PoW
* whisper: refactoring of message queuing
* whisper: refactored parameters

* Filter refactoring
* API tests added + bugfix
* fixed the error logs
* FilterID fixed
* test cases fixed
* key generation updated
* POW updated
* got rid of redundant stuff

whisper: project restructured, version 5 introduced

This commits adds a draft version of the new shh v5 protocol.
The new version is not on by default, --shh still selects version 2.

These tests have become a common annoyance on CI. Fix them by allowing
messages with expiration == now into the cache and delaying the check
for expired message handling slightly.

rpc: be less restrictive on the request id
rpc: improved documentation
console: upgrade web3.js to version 0.16.0
rpc: cache http connections
rpc: rename wsDomains parameter to wsOrigins

As we aren't really using the standarized SHA-3