Author: Ali Sherief 2022-08-04 12:18:56
Published on: 2022-08-04T12:18:56+00:00
A new BIP called notatether-signedmessage has been created by Ali. The BIP defines a procedure for signing and verifying messages from legacy, native/nested segwit, and taproot addresses. The signature format is defined specifically for Taproot, with a 1 byte header/recID, 64 bytes signature and 32 bytes x coordinate of a public key. This allows for the BIP340 Schnorr verify algorithm to run only using the signature, while the header byte is added for backwards compatibility. The BIP137 signatures are completely integrated. Ali is planning to move this format to its own BIP as it is unacceptable to define formats in an Informational BIP. The full details can be found at https://github.com/ZenulAbidin/bips/blob/master/bip-notatether-signedmessage.mediawiki. Comments can be left on the mailing list with BIP editors CC'd.
Updated on: 2023-05-22T20:57:42.588335+00:00