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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-06-14 11:11:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-06-14 11:44:22 +0200 |
| commit | b67a4726dfc3dd7384a151af3cf3b95ba612dd2d (patch) | |
| tree | 38eafb435829fc2cb1f66b39deaf94d8eba9fb11 /doc/release-notes.md | |
| parent | cca1c8cff0119b28beed98ab1a0e397d4a08d521 (diff) | |
| parent | afcd77e17936f7ec9bbf7b47f55a211eccc08364 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-b67a4726dfc3dd7384a151af3cf3b95ba612dd2d.tar.xz | |
Merge #8035: [Wallet] Add simplest BIP32/deterministic key generation implementation
afcd77e Detect -usehd mismatches when wallet.dat already exists (Jonas Schnelli)
17c0131 [Docs] Add release notes and bip update for Bip32/HD wallets (Jonas Schnelli)
c022e5b [Wallet] use constant for bip32 hardened key limit (Jonas Schnelli)
f190251 [Wallet] Add simplest BIP32/deterministic key generation implementation (Jonas Schnelli)
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index be619e41c6..491c82b693 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -119,6 +119,24 @@ feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawik ### Wallet +Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation +----------------------------------------- +Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation +according to BIP32 (keypath m/0'/0'/k'). +Existing wallets will still use traditional key generation. + +Backups of HD wallets, regardless of when they have been created, can +therefore be used to re-generate all possible private keys, even the +ones which haven't already been generated during the time of the backup. + +HD key generation for new wallets can be disabled by `-usehd=0`. Keep in +mind that this flag only has affect on newly created wallets. +You can't disable HD key generation once you have created a HD wallet. + +There is no distinction between internal (change) and external keys. + +[Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) + ### GUI ### Tests |