Based on community feedback we are adding the payment_base as an extra layer of security and prevent mathematically possible contract forgery, with that being said it worth mentioning that this scenario could be very hard due to the fact that this BIP uses BIP32 derivation mechanism which uses hmac-sha512 and the fingerprint of pubkey - chain code.
Adding payment_base to the derivation path as an extra step of security #604
pull omarshibli wants to merge 3 commits into bitcoin:master from commerceblock:master changing 2 files +28 −24-
omarshibli commented at 4:09 AM on October 31, 2017: contributor
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fixed headers style 77437377af
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removed extra spacing dd1f4e0e26
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security fixes, added payment_base to contract b63ed0e17e
- luke-jr merged this on Oct 31, 2017
- luke-jr closed this on Oct 31, 2017
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