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Small changes in Moneropedia -> Payment ID
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Riccardo Spagni 2016-05-22 17:33:20 +02:00
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@ -13,14 +13,13 @@ The Payment ID is usually used to identify transactions to merchants and exchang
### Compact Payment ID's and Integrated Addresses
Since the 0.9 Hydrogen Helix version, the Payment IDs can be encrypted and embedded in a payment address. The payment ID's of this type should be 64-bits.
Since the 0.9 Hydrogen Helix version, the Payment IDs can be encrypted and embedded in a payment address. The payment ID's of this type should be 64-bits and are encrypted with a random one-time key known only to the sender and receiver.
### Creating a Payment ID
One can create a Payment ID quickly from the command line using OpenSSL:
It is recommented to use the official wallet's `integrated_address` command to automatically generate Integrated Addresses that contain Compact Payment ID's. If you want to use the command line, you can generate Payment ID's as follows:
Creating a compact Payment ID for an Integrated Address:
```# openssl rand 8 -hex```
Creating an old-style Payment ID:
```# openssl rand 32 -hex```
or
```# openssl rand 8 -hex``` to get a PaymentID for an Integrated Address.