From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: "Bitcoin Dev" <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Canonical input and output ordering in transactions
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:12:10 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2vhfnx9.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
Title: Canonical Input and Output Ordering
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
Discussions-To: "Bitcoin Dev" <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2015-06-06
Abstract
This BIP provides a canonical ordering of inputs and outputs when
creating transactions.
Motivation
Most bitcoin wallet implementations randomize the outputs of
transactions they create to avoid trivial linkage analysis (especially
change outputs), however implementations have made mistakes in this area
in the past.
Using a canonical ordering has the same effect, but is simpler, more
obvious if incorrect, and can eventually be enforced by IsStandard() and
even a soft-fork to enforce it.
Specification
Inputs should be ordered like so:
index (lower value first)
txid (little endian order, lower byte first)
Outputs should be ordered like so:
amount (lower value first)
script (starting from first byte, lower byte first, shorter wins)
Rationale
Any single wallet is already free to implement this, but if other
wallets do not it would reduce privacy by making those transactions
stand out. Thus a BIP is appropriate, especially if this were to
become an IsStandard() rule once widely adopted.
Because integers are fast to compare, they're sorted first, before the
lexographical ordering.
The other input fields do not influence the sort order, as any valid
transactions cannot have two inputs with the same index and txid.
Reference Implementation
https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitcoin/tree/bip-in-out-ordering
next reply other threads:[~2015-06-06 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-06 4:42 Rusty Russell [this message]
2015-06-06 4:46 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-06 6:44 ` Rusty Russell
2015-06-06 8:24 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-06 9:45 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-08 21:25 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-06-08 21:36 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-14 23:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-14 23:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-15 2:29 ` Rusty Russell
2015-06-15 2:33 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-15 2:47 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-15 21:01 ` Rusty Russell
2015-06-16 7:10 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-16 8:06 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <CABm2gDpkwHvrsB8Dh-hsO6H9trcweEX9XGB5Jh5KLPsPY5Z1Sw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-21 7:27 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Jorge Timón
2015-06-15 4:01 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Kristov Atlas
2015-06-24 22:09 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Kristov Atlas
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