nullius [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-08 📝 Original message:On 2018-01-08 at 04:22:43 ...

📅 Original date posted:2018-01-08
📝 Original message:On 2018-01-08 at 04:22:43 +0000 Gregory Maxwell <greg at xiph.org> wrote:
>I'm happy to see that there is no obvious way to abuse this one as a
>brainwallet scheme!

BIP 39 was designed to make brainwallets secure! If a user generates a
weakling 12-word mnemonic from 16 tiny octets of entropy drawn off the
non-artistic /dev/urandom, then protects its seed with a creative
passphrase haiku about the power of human stupidity, then the result
will have a 128-bit security level. PROVE ME WRONG.

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BIP 39 tool in progress, currently growing brainw^H^H^H^H^Hpassphrase
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