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You generally know the witness size to within a few bytes right before =
signing. Why would you not? You know the size of ECDSA signatures. You =
can be told the size of a hash preimage by the other party. It takes =
some contriving to come up with a scheme where one party has =
variable-length signatures of their chosing

> On Sep 22, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner =
<sergio.d.lerner@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> But generally before one signs a transaction one does not know the =
signature size (which may be variable). One can only estimate the =
maximum size.=20