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Michael Wozniak [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: ๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2014-07-15 ๐Ÿ“ Original message:I have a python ...

๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2014-07-15
๐Ÿ“ Original message:I have a python implementation that seems to pass this test vector:

https://github.com/wozz/electrum/blob/bip38_import/lib/bip38.py#L299



On Jul 15, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:

> I think generally control-characters (such as \u0000) should be
> disallowed in passphrases. (Even the use of whitespaces is very
> questionable.)
>
> I'm ok with allowing pile-of-poo's. On mobile phones there is keyboards
> just containing emoticons -- why not allow those? Assuming NFC works of
> course.
>
>
> On 07/15/2014 03:07 PM, Eric Winer wrote:
>> I don't know for sure if the test vector is correct NFC form. But for
>> what it's worth, the Pile of Poo character is pretty easily accessible
>> on the iPhone and Android keyboards, and in this string it's already in
>> NFC form (f09f92a9 in the test result). I've certainly seen it in
>> usernames around the internet, and wouldn't be surprised to see it in
>> passphrases entered on smartphones, especially if the author of a
>> BIP38-compatible app includes a (possibly ill-advised) suggestion to
>> have your passphrase "include special characters".
>>
>> I haven't seen the NULL character on any smartphone keyboards, though -
>> I assume the iOS and Android developers had the foresight to know how
>> much havoc that would wreak on systems assuming null-terminated strings.
>> It seems unlikely that NULL would be in a real-world passphrase entered
>> by a sane user.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net
>> <mailto:mike at plan99.net>> wrote:
>>
>> [+cc aaron]
>>
>> We recently added an implementation of BIP 38 (password protected
>> private keys) to bitcoinj. It came to my attention that the third
>> test vector may be broken. It gives a hex version of what the NFC
>> normalised version of the input string should be, but this does not
>> match the results of the Java unicode normaliser, and in fact I
>> can't even get Python to print the names of the characters past the
>> embedded null. I'm curious where this normalised version came from.
>>
>> Given that "pile of poo" is not a character I think any sane user
>> would put into a passphrase, I question the value of this test
>> vector. NFC form is intended to collapse things like umlaut control
>> characters onto their prior code point, but here we're feeding the
>> algorithm what is basically garbage so I'm not totally surprised
>> that different implementations appear to disagree on the outcome.
>>
>> Proposed action: we remove this test vector as it does not represent
>> any real world usage of the spec, or if we desperately need to
>> verify NFC normalisation I suggest using a different, more realistic
>> test string, like Zรผrich, or something written in Thai.
>>
>>
>>
>> Test 3:
>>
>> * Passphrase ฯ’ฬโ€๐€๐Ÿ’ฉ (\u03D2\u0301\u0000\U00010400\U0001F4A9; GREEK
>> UPSILON WITH HOOK <http://codepoints.net/U+03D2>;, COMBINING
>> ACUTE ACCENT <http://codepoints.net/U+0301>;, NULL
>> <http://codepoints.net/U+0000>;, DESERET CAPITAL LETTER LONG I
>> <http://codepoints.net/U+10400>;, PILE OF POO
>> <http://codepoints.net/U+1F4A9>;)
>> * Encrypted key:
>> 6PRW5o9FLp4gJDDVqJQKJFTpMvdsSGJxMYHtHaQBF3ooa8mwD69bapcDQn
>> * Bitcoin Address: 16ktGzmfrurhbhi6JGqsMWf7TyqK9HNAeF
>> * Unencrypted private key (WIF):
>> 5Jajm8eQ22H3pGWLEVCXyvND8dQZhiQhoLJNKjYXk9roUFTMSZ4
>> * /Note:/ The non-standard UTF-8 characters in this passphrase
>> should be NFC normalized to result in a passphrase
>> of0xcf9300f0909080f09f92a9 before further processing
>>
>>
>>
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