Bitcoin Dev Archive BIPs

BIP 38: Passphrase-protected private key

Applications, Specification, Deployed. By Mike Caldwell, Aaron Voisine. First discussed on the list 19 Jul 2013; 10 threads and 187 messages in all.

The threads, in order

Listed by the date of each thread's first message.

2013 4 threads

19 Jul 2013
Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet master seed with optional encryption Jean-Paul Kogelman
28 messages
15 Oct 2013
two comments on brain-wallet security (and BIP 38) Adam Back
1 message
19 Oct 2013
A critique of bitcoin open source community Mitar
28 messages
25 Oct 2013
BIP 38 Mike Caldwell
4 messages

2014 4 threads

29 Mar 2014
Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys Matt Whitlock
90 messages
15 Apr 2014
Bug in 2-of-3 transaction signing in Bitcoind? Matt Whitlock
10 messages
9 Jun 2014
BIP38 Encrypted Address Discussion Richard Moore
2 messages
15 Jul 2014
BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue Mike Hearn
22 messages

2015 1 thread

14 Sep 2015
BIP-38 issue and altchain support Eric Voskuil
1 message

2023 1 thread

30 May 2023
Encrypted (like BIP38) master private key Ali Sherief
1 message