From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rc2Bx-0008Rk-Lu for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:53:17 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([173.242.112.54]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1Rc2Bv-0002Wz-GY for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:53:17 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (fl-184-4-160-40.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [184.4.160.40]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 02BA956054A for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:53:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Luke-Jr" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:52:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.4-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201112170132.26201.luke@dashjr.org> In-Reply-To: <201112170132.26201.luke@dashjr.org> X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: CE5A D56A 36CC 69FA E7D2 3558 665F C11D D53E 9583 X-PGP-Key-ID: 665FC11DD53E9583 X-PGP-Keyserver: x-hkp://subkeys.pgp.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112171652.22148.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -2.2 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1Rc2Bv-0002Wz-GY Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Pubkey addresses X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:53:17 -0000 I propose that full public key addresses be required to be "compact" (length 33), and use version 21 (begins with '4', and is redundant with ver 20 for 20- byte data). Any reason this wouldn't be workable?