BIP 0032

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This page describes a BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal).
Please see BIP 2 for more information about BIPs and creating them. Please do not just create a wiki page.

RECENT CHANGES:

(24 Feb 2017) Added test vectors for hardened derivation with leading zeros
(16 Apr 2013) Added private derivation for i ≥ 0x80000000 (less risk of parent private key leakage)
(30 Apr 2013) Switched from multiplication by I_L to addition of I_L (faster, easier implementation)
(25 May 2013) Added test vectors
(15 Jan 2014) Rename keys with index ≥ 0x80000000 to hardened keys, and add explicit conversion functions.

  BIP: 32
  Layer: Applications
  Title: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
  Author: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
  Comments-Summary: No comments yet.
  Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0032
  Status: Final
  Type: Informational
  Created: 2012-02-11
  License: BSD-2-Clause

Please do not modify this page. This is a mirror of the BIP from the source Git repository here.

BIP 0032

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