Pros:
- smaller on the blockchain
- shorter integrated addresses
Cons:
- less sparseness
- less ability to embed actual information
The boolean argument to encrypt payment ids is now gone from the
RPC calls, since the decision is made based on the length of the
payment id passed.
A payment ID may be encrypted using the tx secret key and the
receiver's public view key. The receiver can decrypt it with
the tx public key and the receiver's secret view key.
Using integrated addresses now cause the payment IDs to be
encrypted. Payment IDs used manually are not encrypted by default,
but can be encrypted using the new 'encrypt_payment_id' field
in the transfer and transfer_split RPC calls. It is not possible
to use an encrypted payment ID by specifying a manual simplewallet
transfer/transfer_new command, though this is just a limitation
due to input parsing.
if a new block has the same block id as 202612 but the wrong blobdata,
this will tell the caller that the block id is actually null_hash rather
than the 202612 block id.
Since we need to fix tree_hash, but doing so would invalidate the block
id for block 202612, this fix should check to see if we're trying to get
the block id for 202612 (if its blob hash matches) and return the "old"
block id, for backwards compatibility.
