Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity

2021-02-05 Thread Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
On Friday, February 5, 2021 9:51 AM, Dr Maxim Orlovsky via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hi, > > Background > > > > Had a discussion last night in Bitcoin Core IRC with Peter Wuille on > different topics regarding key derivations, security, key tweaks in context > of Schnorr

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity

2021-02-05 Thread Christopher Allen via bitcoin-dev
Concept ACK. I, in my role as a co-author of the emerging W3C Decentralized Identifier standard and of the BTCR DID method, organizer of the Bitcoin Airgapped Wallet Community ( https://github.com/blockchainCommons/airgapped-Wallet-Community/discussions), and as principal architect of Blockchain

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity

2021-02-05 Thread Dmitry Petukhov via bitcoin-dev
В Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:51:27 + Dr Maxim Orlovsky via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Testnet path is unhardened from this point & till the end of the > derivation path: no need to prevent private key leak there, > simplifies test software (hardened paths require private key access > for derivation). I

[bitcoin-dev] BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity

2021-02-05 Thread Dr Maxim Orlovsky via bitcoin-dev
Hi, Background == Had a discussion last night in Bitcoin Core IRC with Peter Wuille on different topics regarding key derivations, security, key tweaks in context of Schnorr signatures & Taproot. Would like to share some action points and plans that emerged from there: 1. There is a

[bitcoin-dev] Taproot activation meeting 2 - Tuesday 16th February 19:00 UTC

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
A summary of the first Taproot activation meeting (February 3rd) is here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-February/018379.html It appears there is one (hopefully) last stumbling block before we are ready to propose Taproot activation parameters to the mailing list.