[bitcoin-dev] Bech32m BIP: new checksum, and usage for segwit address

[nakagat]

Dear Pieter,

I read the BIP draft of Bech32m and implemented it in Go.

Let me ask you one question.
Does Checksum have to be fixed?
The 'bech32_verify_checksum' function has hrp and data as parameters,
so how about committing Checksum with these two values?

For example, calculate Checksum from hrp and data using hash, chacha20, etc.

Thank you.
Takatoshi Nakagawa

2021年1月5日(火) 9:14 Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
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> Hello all,
>
> here is a BIP draft for changing the checksum in native segwit addresses for v1 and higher, following the discussion in https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-December/018293.html
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> Overall, the idea is:
> * Define a new encoding which is a tweaked variant of Bech32, called Bech32m. It refers to the Bech32 section of BIP173, which remains in effect.
> * Define a new segwit address encoding which replaces the corresponding section in BIP173. It prescribes using Bech32 for v0 witness addresses, and Bech32m for other versions.
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> Comments, suggestions, ideas?
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> Cheers,
>
> --
> Pieter
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