On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 01:42:01PM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 5:28 pm, Roy Badami wrote: > > Right now there are also people simply taking base58-encoded private > > keys and running them through ssss-split. > > > > It has a lot going for it, since it can easily be reassembled on any > > Linux machine without special software (B Poettering's Linux command > > line SSSS implementation[1] seems to be included in most Linux distros). > > > > roy > > > > [1] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ > > Respectfully, it's also possible to take a base58-encoded private key and run > it through GPG, which is included in most Linux distros. But yet we have > BIP38.
And yet, how many wallets can import BIP38 keys? If someone gave me one I would have no idea what software (if any) can understand it (nor would I have any idea how to generate one in the first place). Anyway, I'm not arguing against standardising these things - if people are going to implement this then of course it's beneficial that they implement it compatibly. It was just a simple observation - make of it what you will. roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
