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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH²
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 00:26:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201801060026.51676.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201801041423.05959.luke@dashjr.org>

I've posted an initial draft of a possible Bech32 revision/replacement here:

https://github.com/luke-jr/bips/blob/new_bech32_p2sh2/bip-bech32-p2sh2.mediawiki

On Thursday 04 January 2018 2:23:05 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I know I'm super-late to bring this up, but was there a reason Bech32
> omitted the previously-discussed P2SH² improvements? Since deployment
> isn't too widespread yet, maybe it'd be worth a quick revision to add
> this?
> 
> For those unfamiliar with the concept, the idea is to have the address
> include the *single* SHA256 hash of the public key or script, rather than
> RIPEMD160(SHA256(pubkey)) or SHA256(SHA256(script)). The sender would then
> perform the second hash to produce the output. Doing this would in the
> future enable relaying the "middle-hash" as a way to prove the final hash
> is in fact a hash itself, thereby proving it is not embedded data spam.
> 
> Bech32 seems like a huge missed opportunity to add this, since everyone
> will probably be upgrading to it at some point.
> 
> Luke
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-06  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-04 14:23 [bitcoin-dev] Bech32 and P2SH² Luke Dashjr
2018-01-06  0:26 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2018-01-06  0:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2018-01-06 10:05   ` Adam Ritter

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