On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 05:26:37AM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:09:58 AM Peter Todd wrote: > > Currently signmessage/verifymessage only supports messages signed by a > > single key. We should extend that to messages signed by n-of-m keys, or > > from the users point of view, P2SH multisig addresses. > > I think it would be wise to figure out HD wallet changes before trying to > extend message signing. For privacy/safety, it would be a good idea to avoid > signing with the same private key twice under any circumstances, so it might > make sense to create a new address format the represent a chain of keys > instead of one key or combination of keys.
Sure, which is why I have the header byte so that when we do come up with a chain of keys thing, that in turn can get it's own magic number allocated. FWIW I have an application now where a multisig signmessage would be useful. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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