Merge bitcoin-core/secp256k1#996: Fix G.y parity in sage code

044d956 Fix G.y parity in sage code (Pieter Wuille)

Pull request description:

  I'm not sure if `EllipticCurve.lift_x` has well-defined Y coordinate or not, but at least my current version of Sage computes the wrong G. Fix this.

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Author: real-or-random

sage/secp256k1_params.sage

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ C = EllipticCurve([F(0), F(7)])
 
 """Base point of secp256k1"""
 G = C.lift_x(0x79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798)
+if int(G[1]) & 1:
+    # G.y is even
+    G = -G
 
 """Prime order of secp256k1"""
 N = C.order()