Ordinals and Gordian Envelopes?

[ChristopherA]

One possible interesting use of the ordinals is to place an Gordian Envelope (a CBOR object) on-chain. Gordian Envelopes support a variety of features, including escrowed encryption, shared secret recovery shares, elision/redaction, proof-of-inclusion, etc. The smallest envelope could be the top of an elided tree of assertions allowing parties to use proof-of-inclusion to demonstrate their assertions were valid.

IETF spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcnally-envelope/

Overview: https://www.blockchaincommons.com/introduction/Envelope-Intro/

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-- Christopher Allen

[casey]

I actually call the script construction OP_FALSE OP_IF <data pushes OP_ENDIF used to hold inscriptions an envelope, so it's probably meant to be. Do Gordian Envelopes have a MIME type? Inscription content type is identified by a MIME type, so that would be a prerequisite to making an inscription with one.

[ChristopherA]

Yes: https://blockchaincommons.github.io/WIPs-IETF-draft-envelope/draft-mcnally-envelope.html#name-media-type

The proposed media type [[RFC6838]] for envelope is application/envelope+cbor.