From 7a104491862379e88662a39d1a2b613c907e503e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Murch Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:10:10 -0400 Subject: Mention that BIP350 reduces scope of bech32 to v0 --- bip-0173.mediawiki | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'bip-0173.mediawiki') 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+++ b/bip-0173.mediawiki @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Created: 2017-03-20 License: BSD-2-Clause Replaces: 142 + Superseded-By: 350 ==Introduction== @@ -403,3 +404,12 @@ separator).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. -- cgit v1.2.3