Brooks Boyd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-01-20 📝 Original message:On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-01-20
📝 Original message:On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> during recent months we've reconsidered all comments which we received
> from the community about our BIP39 proposal and we tried to meet all
> requirements for such standard. Specifically the proposal now doesn't
> require any specific wordlist, so every client can use its very own list of
> preferred words. Generated mnemonic can be then applied to any other
> BIP39-compatible client. Please follow current draft at
> https://github.com/trezor/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki.
>


So, because the [mnemonic]->[bip32 root] is just hashing, you've
effectively made your "mnemonic sentence" into a brainwallet? Since every
mnemonic sentence can now lead to a bip32 root, and only the client that
created the mnemonic can verify the mnemonic passes its checksum (assuming
all clients use different wordlists, the only client that can help you if
you fat-finger the sentence is the client that created it)?

Brooks
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