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Re: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official
by
Peter Todd
on 01/04/2014, 00:27:44 UTC
Disclaimer:  I have not looked into the details of how P2SH^2 or even P2SH works yet.

I also think it's not possible to prevent embedding data.  In baddw's scheme, pre-generating dozens of vanity-like addresses for the "alphabet" addresses should be an easy one time brute-force if we limit the number of bits per address.

Yeah, you're basically limited by how much space you have for that dictionary. For instance a 32-bit brute force dictionary, stored as 32-bit seeds, would be 17GiB.

Could you not then embed the data by linking your alphabet addresses to all the vins/vouts of your transactions?  Most of it could just be sending coins back and forth between your own "alphabit" addresses.

For the non-brute force solution, embed your bits into all the transaction values.  ABCD can just be values in vout[1]vout[2]...etc...to your own addresses.

You guys are still all missing a even deeper implication of P2SH^2. I'll give you another hint: Does data need to be stored forever to prove it was published once?