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Title: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: BlackSpidy on July 08, 2015, 04:59:29 AM Also, what's that about "signed messages" I keep hearing at the bitcointalk account sales discussions?
Thanks in advance for the answer(s). 8) Title: Re: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: Dr.Famous on July 08, 2015, 05:05:28 AM Signed messages are by which you can prove your ownership of a particular wallet address.
Tutoial on how to sign a message: https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_signAndVerifyMessage.html Public Addresses are case-sensitive and I am not aware of private keys though. Title: Re: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: sgk on July 08, 2015, 05:07:29 AM Also, what's that about "signed messages" I keep hearing at the bitcointalk account sales discussions? Thanks in advance for the answer(s). 8) Yes, addresses and keys are case sensitive. From Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address#Addresses_are_case_sensitive_and_exact Signed messages: You can use a Bitcoin wallet program to generate a message. The message contains meta data and when the message is verified using any other application, it is proved that you are the owner of the Bitcoin address from which the message was created. This helps in proving ownership of addresses, and hence the forum accounts associated with those addresses. Title: Re: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: Amph on July 08, 2015, 06:10:17 AM you can't go wrong with pubblic keys, there is a checksum in the client, to verify the integrity of them
but with altcoin, there are some case when address can be confused, so pay attention there more Title: Re: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: jaberwock on July 08, 2015, 06:13:18 AM Of course addresses are case sensitive and private keys are too, otherwise the valid addresses would be reduced, and the security too.
For sign message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0 Title: Re: Are public addresses and private keys case-sensitive? Post by: goosoodude on July 08, 2015, 11:30:49 AM you can't go wrong with pubblic keys, there is a checksum in the client, to verify the integrity of them but with altcoin, there are some case when address can be confused, so pay attention there more Though one should not trust in that a website or wallet is checking if the address one is sending too is valid. There are, most probably, websites that does not check if the bitcoin address is a valid one. Sending the coins into nirwana. Though when i think about it. Maybe miners would not implement such transaction in a block then. Or no, it would be too time consuming for them to test if every address in the transactions are valid. |