andrew on Nostr: Seed phrase entropy goes against every tenet of practical cryptography. This line of ...

Seed phrase entropy goes against every tenet of practical cryptography.

This line of code caused more damage than all the CEX collapses combined:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/6db1a31e58ee15c448448139e7d3a9e72b14268f/client/electrum#L701

Thomas Voegtlin had no experience with cryptography when he created Electrum in 2011.