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From: CryptAxe <cryptaxe@gmail.com>
To: Weiwu Zhang <a@colourful.land>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion to remove word from BIP39 English wordlist
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:14:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF5CFkgO4SEBxTH93-L_d=JBgAmDNFTJa-LrnyjcvY-Esop9EA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEvpD62pd_s17VoGw8B+=3_cmMq2cWneAR0MZ_CT_7DqooBnLQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Why wouldn't they just test the frequency of words from the wordlist in
entirety?

On Jan 17, 2018 5:10 PM, "Weiwu Zhang via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> 2018-01-09 19:20 GMT+08:00 Ronald van der Meer via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
> > After reviewing some bitcoin improvement proposals, I noticed that one
> of the words that can be found on the BIP39 English wordlist is “satoshi”.
> > I suggest removing this word from the list so it’s less obvious that
> it’s a bitcoin seed when found by a malicious third party.
>
> If a malicious third party discovers a word list that look like a
> seed, they would try using it as Bitcoin seed first anyway, with or
> without finding the word 'satoshi' in it. The security threat is that
> a malicious third party may index what they found and test every
> occurrence of 'satoshi' for a lead to a seed.
>
> For example, a hard-disk recycling service would add this word to
> their salvage tools. Any successfully hacked gmail account will be
> 'satoshi' tested too.
>
> So I see this as a reasonable improvement:)
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 11:20 [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion to remove word from BIP39 English wordlist Ronald van der Meer
2018-01-18  1:07 ` Weiwu Zhang
2018-01-18  1:14   ` CryptAxe [this message]
2018-01-18  6:55     ` Jonathan Sterling
2018-01-18 19:50       ` Alan Evans
2018-01-18 20:49 Matthew Clancy
2018-01-18 21:29 ` Alan Evans
2018-01-23 19:40   ` Ronald van der Meer

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