Quote from: Pieter Wuille on May 10, 2013, 11:30:41 PM

Quote from: thanke on May 10, 2013, 02:46:27 PM

- get the basescript with GetCScript(id)

Where does the CScript from if you don't know the other keys in the first place? P2SH transactions do not contain the actual (public) keys anyway, so whatever you do, you need some metadata about the P2SH script in your wallet. I don't see the problem with extending this with the individual BIP32 public parent keys (if you need to be able to access the entire chain of multisig addresses in the first place).

I mean you do have the other keys, of course, inside the CScript. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the other keys are present as entries of their own in the key database. HasKey() will still return false for the ids of the individual pubkeys of the script, unless you imported them individually.

My impression was you wanted to stay as close as possible with current key/address handling and in particular wanted a map addr -> chaincode. The easiest multisig generalization (in terms of handling) would be one chaincode per multisig address. Matter of taste I guess.

Individual chaincodes per pubkey in a multisig can do potentially more, like combining different pubkeys from unrelated chains into a multisig. But that's far beyond scope of BIP 32 I assume. With one chaincode per address there is no handling issues and you can trivially implement derivation from a multisig address with very few additional lines of code.