I would highly recommend NOT using Base58 for anything except stuff that is to be copy/pasted by the enduser.

Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.

- Eric

On Jan 14, 2015 2:54 PM, "Jeffrey Paul" <jp@eeqj.com> wrote:

> On 20150114, at 09:39, 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.

To clarify: the raw bytes of the public key itself, not the ascii base58 representation of the pubkey hash - right?

-jp

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