electrum

commit 3842205b8a1b48bbe8da58de34f60f2145aea7f5
parent 152c6abb86f41e3fdf0992501f500571e806091b
Author: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:22:34 +0200

keystore: add note regarding xpubkeys

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electrum/keystore.py
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/electrum/keystore.py b/electrum/keystore.py
@@ -253,12 +253,17 @@ class Xpub:
 
     @classmethod
     def parse_xpubkey(self, pubkey):
+        # type + xpub + derivation
         assert pubkey[0:2] == 'ff'
         pk = bfh(pubkey)
+        # xpub:
         pk = pk[1:]
         xkey = bitcoin.EncodeBase58Check(pk[0:78])
+        # derivation:
         dd = pk[78:]
         s = []
+        # FIXME: due to an oversight, levels in the derivation are only
+        # allocated 2 bytes, instead of 4 (in bip32)
         while dd:
             n = int(bitcoin.rev_hex(bh2u(dd[0:2])), 16)
             dd = dd[2:]