Re: [Bitcoin-development] convention/standard for sorting public keys for p2sh multisig transactions

2015-01-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Rupp
A public key is a point in the elliptic curve. As such it has an X and a Y component. Its serialization is described very succintly here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Signatures On 15/01/15 01:17, Matt Whitlock wrote: > I thought pubkeys were represented as raw integers (i.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] convention/standard for sorting public keys for p2sh multisig transactions

2015-01-15 Thread Jonathan Brown
In BIP45 it mentions "lexicographically sorting the public keys". https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0045.mediawiki#Address_Generation_Procedure On 15 January 2015 at 03:32, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sounds like this warrants a micro-BIP just to get everybody on the same > page. > > > O