Bram Cohen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-07-07 📝 Original message:Part of the rules of my ...

📅 Original date posted:2022-07-07
📝 Original message:Part of the rules of my challenge is that the 'new' words need to be in the
same pool as the 'old' words, so any ordering is okay. Without that
requirement it's mathematically very straightforward.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 10:52 AM Pavol Rusnak <stick at satoshilabs.com> wrote:

> There is. Just encode the index of permutation used to scramble the
> otherwise sorted list. For 12 words you need to store 12! = ~32 bits so 3
> words should be enough.
>
> Repetitions make this more difficult, though.
>
> On Thu 7. 7. 2022 at 19:41, Bram Cohen via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:43 AM Anton Shevchenko via bitcoin-dev <
>> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I made a python implementation for a different mnemonic encoding. The
>>> encoding requires user to remember words but not the order of those words.
>>> The code is open (MIT license) at https://github.com/sancoder/noomnem
>>
>>
>> Thanks Anton. There's an interesting mathematical question of whether
>> it's possible to make a code like this which always uses the BIP-39 words
>> for the same key as part of its encoding, basically adding a few words as
>> error correction in case the order is lost or confused. If the BIP-39
>> contains a duplicate you can add an extra word.
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> --
> Best Regards / S pozdravom,
>
> Pavol "stick" Rusnak
> Co-Founder, SatoshiLabs
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