From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version bytes
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 21:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110707194007.GA27416@ulyssis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707111557.GA5231@ulyssis.org>
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:15:57PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> after a discussion on IRC, we decided to try to standardize the version bytes
> used by bitcoin for several applications.
I realize my mail may have been a bit unclear. This is about the version bytes
used in addresses and other base58-encoded data structures. I'd like to see some
convention adopted before everyone starts defining their own.
The proposal in the previous mail could be summarized by the following functions
(for non-alternate chains). It is compatible with all currently-used version bytes
that i know of (testnet, realnet, addresses, private keys, namecoin, multicoin):
enum dataclass_t
{
address = 0,
privkey = 4,
masterkey = 6,
extended = 7
}
int EncodeVersionByte(dataclass_t class, int nVersion, bool fTestNet)
{
return (class << 5 + nVersion << 1) ^ fTestNet*111;
}
void DecodeVersionByte(int nByte, dataclass_t& class, int& nVersion, bool& fTestNet)
{
fTestNet = false;
if (nByte & 1)
{
fTestNet = true;
nByte ^= 111;
}
class = (nByte & 224) >> 5;
nVersion = (nByte & 14) >> 1;
}
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-07 11:15 Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07 19:40 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2011-07-08 6:36 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-07-08 8:16 ` John Smith
2011-07-08 8:18 ` John Smith
2011-07-08 9:25 ` Pieter Wuille
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