From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] After compressed pubkeys: hybrid pubkeys
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:16:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJAc8ZX9ziapULE7KJpJUonTv+sfncw0RGLwu_YPQrM=zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120617120447.GA26357@vps7135.xlshosting.net>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:01:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > * 0x04 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: uncompressed format
> > > * 0x06 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for even Y
> coords
> > > * 0x07 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for odd Y
> coords
> >
> > So what's the actual difference in format? Is there any at all, or
> > it's just the first number that's different?
>
> >From what I understand, that is indeed the only difference.
>
>
To prevent surprises in the future, in case OpenSSL decides to add more,
can we disable all other key formats in advance?
Wladimir
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-16 19:26 Pieter Wuille
2012-06-16 21:41 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-06-16 23:39 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-06-17 1:15 ` Luke-Jr
2012-06-17 11:01 ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-17 12:04 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-06-17 15:16 ` Wladimir [this message]
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