On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Mike Caldwell <mcaldw...@swipeclock.com> wrote: > I have noticed that there was a recent change to BIP 0038 > (Password-Protected Private Key) on the Wiki, which is a proposal I wrote in > late 2012. Gregory, it looks to me as though you have made this change, and > I’m hoping for your help here. The change suggests that the number was > never assigned, and that there has been no discussion regarding the proposal > on this list.
Greetings, (repeating from our discussion on IRC) No prior messages about your proposal have made it to the list, and no mention of the assignment had been made in the wiki. The first I ever heard of this scheme was long after you'd written the document when I attempted to assign the number to something else then noticed something existed at that name. Since you had previously created BIP documents without public discussion (e.g. "BIP 22" https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/OP_CHECKSIGEX_DRAFT_BIP [...] Or, I wonder did your emails just get eaten that time too?), I'd just assumed something similar had happened here. I didn't take any action at the time I first noticed it, but after someone complained about bitcoin-qt "not confirming with BIP38" to me today it was clear to me that people were confusing this with something that was "officially" (as much as anything is) supported, so I moved the document out. (I've since moved it back, having heard from you that you thought that it had actually been assigned/announced). With respect to moving it forward: Having a wallet which can only a single address is poor form. Jean-Paul Kogelman has a draft proposal which is based on your BIP38 work though the encoding scheme is different, having been revised in response to public discussion. Perhaps efforts here can be combined? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
