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From: Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com>
To: devrandom <c1.sf-bitcoin@niftybox.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Ruben de Vries <ruben@blocktrail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] convention/standard for sorting public keys for p2sh multisig transactions
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:00:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABr1YTcDMhyT=3dbnSJnnBXnKCO-Cfbip7G+H9A9zVDmjEafHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421257150.8969.4.camel@niftybox.net>

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I think everyone is pretty much following this standard now.

- Eric
On Jan 14, 2015 12:58 PM, "devrandom" <c1.sf-bitcoin@niftybox.net> wrote:

> At CryptoCorp we recommend to our customers that they sort
> lexicographically by the public key bytes of the leaf public keys.  i.e.
> the same as BitPay.
>
> On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 17:37 +0100, Ruben de Vries wrote:
> > For p2sh multisig TXs the order of the public keys affect the hash and
> > there doesn't seem to be an agreed upon way of sorting the public
> > keys.
> >
> >
> > If there would be a standard (recommended) way of sorting the public
> > keys that would make it easier for services that implement some form
> > of multisig to be compatible with each other without much hassle and
> > making it possible to import keys from one service to another.
> >
> >
> > I'm not suggesting forcing the order, just setting a standard to
> > recommend, there doesn't seem to be much reason for (new) services to
> > not follow that recommendation.
> >
> >
> > Ryan from BitPay broad this up before
> > (https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/32092958/) and in
> > bitcore they've implemented lexicographical sorting on the hex of the
> > public key.
> > In a short search I can't find any other library that has a sorting
> > function, let alone using it by default, so bitcore is currently my
> > only reference.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ​Ruben de Vries
> > ​CTO, BlockTrail
> >
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-14 18:00 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 [this message]
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
     [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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