Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 06:33:44 +0000
From: nullius <nullius@nym.zone>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Satoshilabs secret shared private key scheme
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On 2018-01-08 at 04:22:43 +0000 Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org> wrote:
>I'm happy to see that there is no obvious way to abuse this one as a=20
>brainwallet scheme!

BIP 39 was designed to make brainwallets secure!  If a user generates a=20
weakling 12-word mnemonic from 16 tiny octets of entropy drawn off the=20
non-artistic /dev/urandom, then protects its seed with a creative=20
passphrase haiku about the power of human stupidity, then the result=20
will have a 128-bit security level.  PROVE ME WRONG.

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BIP 39 tool in progress, currently growing brainw^H^H^H^H^Hpassphrase=20
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Bitcoin: bc1qcash96s5jqppzsp8hy8swkggf7f6agex98an7h

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