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* [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion to remove word from BIP39 English wordlist
@ 2018-01-09 11:20 Ronald van der Meer
  2018-01-18  1:07 ` Weiwu Zhang
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ronald van der Meer @ 2018-01-09 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-dev

Hello guys,

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.

Regards, 
Ronald van der Meer
 
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* Re: [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion to remove word from BIP39 English wordlist
@ 2018-01-18 20:49 Matthew Clancy
  2018-01-18 21:29 ` Alan Evans
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Clancy @ 2018-01-18 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: thealanevans, bitcoin-dev

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I would disagree here:

>But most of all:
>7. Removing a word or changing a list *is impossible* as verification of an
>existing mnemonic requires the list. To change one word, you would need to
>provide an alternative to BIP0039 to cope with alternative words, or change
>all the words to a completely new set of 2048 English words so that it is
>clear which wordlist is in use.

All that really would need to be done is select another word that is not on
the 2048 list, and then agree that by convention,  the words 'satoshi' or
the alternative word will represent the same number on the list. It seems
to be to be a fairly simple thing to implement.

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2018-01-18  1:07 ` Weiwu Zhang
2018-01-18  1:14   ` CryptAxe
2018-01-18  6:55     ` Jonathan Sterling
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