As reported by @gsalgado (thanks!), the docs incorrectly state that all
sigs are compared against all pubkeys. This commit provides a corrected
description, additional details, and references in other parts of the
text where we mention multisig. (Fixes#622)
This modifies commits provided by @petertodd to use the terms "pubkey
script" and "signature script" instead of other terms.
* Rename "scriptPubKey" and "output script" to "pubkey script"
(suggested by @luke-jr). We leave a token "scriptPubKey" at the point
where we define pubkey script so that searchers can find it.
* Rename "scriptSig" to "signature script" (suggested by @luke-jr). We
also leave a token "scriptSig" at this definition point.
* Rename "redeemScript" to "redeem script"
* Defined ECDSA on secp256k1 curve as the crypto used in the Transaction
section and added references to secp256k1 private/public keys and
signatures.
* Removed "The Parts Of A Transaction" illustration by commenting it out
in the HTML. Shoehorning the pubkey/signature script terms into this
image was becoming difficult, and I'm not very fond of that
illustration anyway. I'll see if I can think of a nicer replacement
illustration for some point in the future.
* Add a short paraphrased version @petertodd's description of scripts as
generalized crypto.
* Updated all the illustrations which referred to either pubkey scripts
or signature scripts to use these terms.
* Small grammar fixes.
* Lower case #term-scriptPubKey as all our other anchor links are
lower case
* Replace script/scripts with scriptPubKey/scriptPubKeys in
_autocrossref.yaml. (Fixes `make test` errors from broken
auto-crossref links.)
No apparent privacy is added by the implementation we link to, and the
press release I read indicates they don't plan to fix it, so I'm
removing our link to it.
_includes/guide_transactions.md:
* DOS expanded to "denial of service" to improve readability and avoid
conflation with Disk Operating System. Change based on feedback from
@luke-jr. Thanks!
_includes/guide_mining.md:
* Dropped assertion that `getblocktemplate` can't reuse an established
socket. Change based on feedback from @luke-jr. Thanks!
_includes/guide_contracts.md:
* Dropped opening sentences to Contracts section, which were a holdover
from when contracts was a subsection of Transactions. New opening
sentence is now similar to the summary sentences which open all other
sections. Change based on feedback from @mikehearn. Thanks!
* Deleted USA-centric example from second paragraph and merged remaining
parts of the first two paragraphs into a single opening paragraph with
no example. Change based on feedback from @mikehearn. Thanks!
* Removed mention of placeholder byte from multisig example. Change
based on feedback from @mikehearn. Thanks!
Thanks also (in alphabetical order) to @cbeams, @mikehearn, and
@tgeller, among others.
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