James Poole [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-06-12 📝 Original message:Looking at the BIP32 ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-06-12
📝 Original message:Looking at the BIP32 definition, I hit a line that I would appreciate
clarification on.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki

Under the section "Private parent key → private child key" there is a step:

"The returned child key ki is parse256(IL) + kpar (mod n)."

Can someone help me understand what "n" is in the context of this
algorithm? I very well could be looking right at it, but wanted to double
check if I am missing something.

Thanks,
James
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