conformal/btcwallet — pull request #125 by davecgh (2014-08-26 22:02:19+00:00)
Title: [WIP Preview] New secure hierarchical deterministic wallet address manager.

This pull request is a work in progress and is being opened as a preview. It implements a new secure, scalable, hierarchical deterministic wallet address manager.

The following bullets are an overview of what is already supported:
- BIP0032 hierarchical deterministic keys
- BIP0043/BIP0044 Multi-Account Hierarchy
- Strong focus on security:
- Fully encrypted database including **public** information such as addresses as well as private information such as private keys and scripts needed to redeem pay-to-script-hash transactions
- Hardened against memory scraping through the use of actively clearing private material from memory when locked
- Scalable design
- Multi-tier key design to allow instant password changes regardless of the number of addresses stored
- Tests have been performed against a sample database with 1 million addresses in it with no degradation in performance
- It currently takes about 1.5 seconds per 1000 new addresses on commodity hardware
- Import WIF keys
- Import pay-to-script-hash scripts for things such as multi-signature transactions
- Programmatically detectable errors, including encapsulation of errors from packages it relies on

Things left before it's ready for merge:
- Implement address synchronization capabilities
- Add full test coverage
- Add examples
- Add README.md