On 04/26/2014 04:33 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>
> Let's assume we use one shared branch for everyone. Then two
> cosigners could need a new receiving address at the same time, and
> get the next unused address on that branch.
>
> This is the part I struggle to understand. There is no shared branch
> because each user/cosigner has their own unique seed and thus unique
> key hierarchy, right? What you described above could be an issue if
> all co-signers shared the same seed but then the scheme wouldn't work.
>
Consider two people with phones, using 2-of-2, using private seeds k1
and k2. Every address generated by either party is:
2-of-2(K1/a'/b/c, K2/a'/b/c)
So for any a, b and c you end up with a 2-of-2 address. The
seeds/branches will not be used for single-sig receiving... it's always
a multisig 2-of-2. In fact it behaves much like a regular wallet, you
give an a, b, and c value, and you get an address -- it's just that this
wallet always gives you a P2SH multisig address.
The problem is that if you follow BIP32 in the the most obvious way,
both devices will generate receiving addresses along the last index,
i.e. K/a'/b/0, K/a'/b/1, K/a'/b/2,... If I am at one store and my
wife at another, we might both give out 2-of-2(K1/a'/b/382, K2/a'/b/382)
at the same time not realizing the other one has distributed that
address. There's not a good way to coordinate the devices well enough
to avoid it. But we don't have to.
The solution is to use two separate branches -- both phones will
follow/watch both branches, but each only only distributes payment
addresses from one such branch.
The original proposal here suggested adding a level to the tree using
the "cosigner index" as a branch point for doing this... I recommended
simply having 2*N values for "b", so that each participant has a
receiving line and change line, that won't conflict with other devices.
However, all devices will still watch all 2*N branches to know the total
balance of the wallet, and will use UTXOs from those branches when
constructing spending transactions/proposals.
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