From: James MacWhyte <macwhyte@gmail.com>
To: Aymeric VITTE <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP39 seeds
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:54:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+Axy7v=26P8=CJPUqymKOcromGz+zYZ2cb2KaASgXNPpE2tQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <743fb106-977e-1f34-47af-9fb3b8621e72@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 11:33 AM Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
wrote:
> so, even with a tool like yours, they can be misleaded, for example trying
> a few words to replace the missing/incorrect one, get a valid seed and stay
> stuck with it forever trying to play with BIP44/49 to find their keys
>
Just a small detail, but my tool actually looks up all the possible
combinations and then finds which one has been used before by looking for
past transactions on the blockchain. Therefore, it won't tell you your
phrase is correct unless it is a phrase that has actually been used before
(preventing what you described).
Using some algorithm to take some input and generate a bip39 phrase that
you can use with any bip39 wallet sounds perfectly reasonable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-26 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-21 23:58 [bitcoin-dev] BIP39 seeds Aymeric Vitte
2018-12-23 18:46 ` Pavol Rusnak
2018-12-23 22:41 ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-12-25 0:30 ` James MacWhyte
2018-12-26 11:33 ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-12-26 18:54 ` James MacWhyte [this message]
2018-12-27 11:04 ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-12-31 16:52 ` Alan Evans
2019-01-01 19:44 ` Aymeric Vitte
2019-01-02 18:06 ` James MacWhyte
2019-01-04 0:02 ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-12-24 14:58 ` Tiago Romagnani Silveira
2018-12-23 20:55 ` Eric Scrivner
2018-12-23 21:08 ` Jameson Lopp
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