From: Jean-Pierre Rupp <root@haskoin.com>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>,
bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Ruben de Vries <ruben@blocktrail.com>, Jeffrey Paul <jp@eeqj.com>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] convention/standard for sorting public keys for p2sh multisig transactions
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:33:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B7B3A3.1000809@haskoin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3382316.6TbFyFjyI6@crushinator>
A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and
a Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures
On 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.e., they're embedded in Script as a push operation whose payload is the raw bytes of the big-endian representation of the integer). As far as I know, DER encoding is only used for signatures. Am I mistaken?
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Be Happy :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 16:37 [Bitcoin-development] convention/standard for sorting public keys for p2sh multisig transactions Ruben de Vries
2015-01-14 17:39 ` devrandom
2015-01-14 18:00 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-01-14 18:58 ` Jean-Pierre Rupp
2015-01-14 19:27 ` Jeffrey Paul
2015-01-14 19:58 ` Pavol Rusnak
2015-01-14 23:53 ` Eric Lombrozo
[not found] ` <CALKy-wreXNohc_Pe_DLBS1cXoS-3j8C_F7WsKuU=CYYKF9NB1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-15 1:09 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-01-15 1:17 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-15 12:33 ` Jean-Pierre Rupp [this message]
[not found] ` <CA+s+GJCsta-FesGv7zW_i2pEtZM5U20ZqP2V_Oog_LBtQBbe-w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-16 10:16 ` Ruben de Vries
2015-01-16 16:34 ` Thomas Kerin
2015-01-16 17:09 ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-14 20:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-15 11:59 ` Jonathan Brown
2015-01-16 18:40 Jean-Pierre Rupp
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