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| author | Mark "Murch" Erhardt <murch@murch.one> | 2024-04-25 14:21:46 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-04-25 14:21:46 -0400 |
| commit | d402abb79717ca3cea435135c8186d81885e678d (patch) | |
| tree | beb95594ec4347a3d2030150f7ea538cdebe311d | |
| parent | 5552e485bd39d799a7e44b5d004601641b58f020 (diff) | |
| parent | 7a104491862379e88662a39d1a2b613c907e503e (diff) | |
| download | bips-d402abb79717ca3cea435135c8186d81885e678d.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #1582 from murchandamus/2024-04-reduce-bip173-to-v0
Reduce scope of BIP173 to native segwit v0
| -rw-r--r-- | bip-0173.mediawiki | 10 |
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diff --git a/bip-0173.mediawiki b/bip-0173.mediawiki index 1fdd8be..7087fff 100644 --- a/bip-0173.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0173.mediawiki @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Created: 2017-03-20 License: BSD-2-Clause Replaces: 142 + Superseded-By: 350 </pre> ==Introduction== @@ -403,3 +404,12 @@ separator). This document is inspired by the [https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=578 address proposal] by Rusty Russell, the [https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2014-February/004402.html base32] proposal by Mark Friedenbach, and had input from Luke Dashjr, Johnson Lau, Eric Lombrozo, Peter Todd, and various other reviewers. + +==Disclosures (added 2024)== + +Due to an oversight in the design of bech32, this checksum scheme is not always +robust against +[[https://gist.github.com/sipa/a9845b37c1b298a7301c33a04090b2eb|the insertion +and deletion of fewer than 5 consecutive characters]]. Due to this weakness, +[[bip-0350.mediawiki|BIP-350]] proposes using the scheme described in this BIP +only for Native Segwit v0 outputs. |