Hi All, Recently someone pointed out that BIP 380 specifies that `H` can be used as a hardened indicator in derivation paths, in addition to `'` and `h`. However, there was also a test which suggested that `H` was not a valid hardened indicator. A PR resolving this discrepancy by moving that test from the invalid to the valid section was merged, but there is still a question of whether this was the right course of action.
Currently, Bitcoin Core does not implement this, and AFAICT, neither does rust-miniscript. There is an open PR to Bitcoin Core to allow `H` (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32788), but ongoing discussion suggests that perhaps the BIP should be modified instead as it seems probable that no implementation of descriptors allows `H`. So the question is: are there any implementations of descriptors that emit descriptors that use `H` as a hardened indicator, or permit `H` as a hardened indicator? I think the former question is more useful to know as it is more important that the descriptor implementations can parse each other's products. It is possible that there are implementations that allow `H` but do not emit `H`, since there are libraries that provide BIP 32 utilities which allow `H`. Thanks Ava -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/848d3d4b-94a5-4e7c-b178-62cf5015b65f%40achow101.com.
