On Thursday 21 December 2017 10:26:25 PM Dan Bryant via bitcoin-dev wrote: > https://github.com/brianddk/bips/blob/legacysignverify/bip-0xyz.mediawiki
It's not even correct... Your first "verify message" step is not possible; you can't get a public key from an address. What is actually done, is using the signature + message to perform key recovery, to extract the public key of the signer, and then hashing that and comparing it to the address provided. > Although this is a well established functionality, it has never been > published in a BIP. My proposal is simply to provide a reference point for > future expansion of these capabilities into new address schemes. New schemes should probably NOT be based on the current one. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
