{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0220","slug":"bip-45","title":"Structure for Deterministic P2SH Multisignature Wallets","authors":"Manuel Araoz","year":2014,"date_label":"2014","publisher":"Manuel Araoz","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Privacy","topics":["Privacy"],"source_url":"https://bips.dev/45","source_label":"BIP 45","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2014 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"BIP 45, Structure for Deterministic P2SH Multisignature Wallets. A structure for hierarchical deterministic P2SH multi-party multi-signature wallets (HDPM wallets from now on) based on the algorithm described in BIP-0032 (BIP32 from now on) and purpose scheme described in BIP-0043 (BIP43 from now on).","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/bip-45","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/bip-45","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/bip-45","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"BIP 45 study","href":"/whitepaper/bip-45"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Groth16","href":"/whitepaper/groth16"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Bulletproofs","href":"/whitepaper/bulletproofs"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Taproot","href":"/whitepaper/taproot"}]}