Oh if you mean the <P:32>, that doesn't help. It still doubles the
number of rows that clients need to process.
We want to lessen the processing burden on clients, so they can use a
smaller prefix (= more data) to remain more anonymous.

On 01/08/2015 12:28 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> Yep I got rid of that, that's not staying.
> That's more the type or info byte.
>
> On 01/08/2015 08:25 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:11:53AM +0100, Amir Taaki wrote:
>>> This increases the number of client side computations, which reduces the
>>> anonymity. It is trivial for the server to store this data and halves
>>> the computation workload for the client, thereby increasing the
>>> acceptable working dataset & improving anonymity for the client.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> However, what about changing the stealth standard itself to not have the
>> sign byte in the OP_RETURN? I believe we've discussed this, along with
>> getting rid of that version byte. We're still at the point where we can
>> change things.
>>
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