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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@satoshilabs.com>
To: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP39 seeds
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:46:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2d73a92-e1c5-9072-e255-fa012a9f9d1b@satoshilabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68330522-7e7c-c3b4-99a9-1c68ddb56f23@gmail.com>

On 22/12/2018 00:58, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Has anybody already looked at this: given N randomly chosen words
> belonging to a BIP39 2048 words dictionary, what is the probability to
> get a "valid" BIP39 seed (ie with the right checksum)?

1:256 for 24 words
1:16 for 12 words

This ratio is not too great and will be improved in the upcoming SLIP39
standard: https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0039.md

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol "stick" Rusnak
CTO, SatoshiLabs


  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-23 18:46 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 [this message]
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
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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