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| One weakness that may not be immediately obvious, is that knowledge of a parent extended public key plus any non-hardened private key descending from it is equivalent to knowing the parent extended private key (and thus every private and public key descending from it). This means that extended public keys must be treated more carefully than regular public keys. | ||
| It is also the reason for the existence of hardened keys, and why they are used for the account level in the tree. This way, a leak of account-specific (or below) private key never risks compromising the master or other accounts. | ||
| It is also the reason for the existence of hardened keys, and why they are used for the account level in the tree. This way, a leak of account-specific (or below) private keys never risks compromising the master or other accounts. |
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If you switch "key" to the plural, shouldn't the "s" from "risks" be removed?
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No, I think "risks" would stay as it is, because it's the verb for the subject "leak," not "keys." If you remove what's in the middle of the sentence:
This way, a leak ... never risks compromising the master or other accounts.
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@sipa This was changed after your last ACK... re-ACK? |
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ACK, no alteration of meaning in the text AFAICT. Pinging @sipa for sign-off on the second commit. |
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Thanks @sipa. |
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Very small grammar fix of "keys" to "key." I checked across all the currently open PRs related to BIP-32 (#293, #575, #576, #695, #785, #885), and I don't think any of them have suggested this change yet.