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From: slush <slush@centrum.cz>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:47:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJna-Hi6LLFBdxqsvTkYNFWeu3MVTV2QVWbfCYsai+_szU9=NA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRtmjhDbyPinVKFcba=2DCDovNPmRO1rCajrZEFWd4ONQ@mail.gmail.com>

We're open to changes in the wordlist. We'll accept pull request
replacing potentially offensive words by another more neutral, which
also fits all other requirements.

Putting the wordlist together is really hard job and we spent few
sleepless nights on that. By the way, words "murder, black, people"
are contained also in Electrum wordlist and nobody complained yet :-).

slush

On 9/11/13, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Matthew Mitchell
> <matthewmitchell@godofgod.co.uk> wrote:
>> Well let's hope something like "murder black people", "stupid asian
>> person" or "whip african slave" doesn't come up. :-) Maybe it would have
>> been better without the aggressive words?
>
> Ouch.
>
> This sounds like something that $20 of mechanical turk time could help
> out with a lot.  Put up the 2048 words and ask people to rate them for
> potential offensiveness and threatening. :)
>
> Nouns often make for fairly neutral words, though careful for place
> names which have had political complications. E.g. gdansk vs danzig.
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 16:44 [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys slush
2013-09-10 17:36 ` Andreas M. Antonopoulos
2013-09-10 20:40 ` Matthew Mitchell
2013-09-10 20:50   ` slush
2013-09-10 21:03     ` Matthew Mitchell
2013-09-10 21:34       ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-09-10 22:08       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-09-10 22:35         ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-09-10 22:43           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-09-11 12:49           ` Andreas Petersson
2013-09-12 12:09             ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-09-10 22:47         ` slush [this message]
2013-09-12 12:11       ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-09-12 16:02         ` Matthew Mitchell
2013-10-24 18:26           ` slush
2013-10-24 19:23             ` Pieter Wuille
2013-10-24 19:46               ` slush
2013-10-24 19:32             ` Jorge Timón
2013-10-24 19:37               ` slush

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