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 1RrN7e-0007ve-I5 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:14 +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 1RrN7c-0001gJ-EA for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:14 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (fl-184-4-164-217.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [184.4.164.217]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD6155606F4; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:06 +0000 (UTC) From: "Luke-Jr" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net, Amir Taaki Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:15:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.5-gentoo; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <1327812740.41242.YahooMailNeo@web121002.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <1327813841.99379.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1327813841.99379.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> 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: <201201290015.59665.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1RrN7c-0001gJ-EA Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16 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: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:14 -0000 On Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:10:41 AM Amir Taaki wrote: > 2 compressed pubkeys 2 compressed pubkeys are 33 bytes each. Add 1 bytes for the N (n-of-m), 1 byte for the address version, and finally the 4 byte checksum, you get a total of 72 bytes. But these are *bytes* - to get an address, you also need to base58 encode it: this yields a 99 character address.