Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VJjsU-0004Q0-8X for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:50:38 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from petersson.at ([213.239.210.117]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1VJjsP-0003aZ-Ex for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:50:38 +0000 Received: by petersson.at (Postfix, from userid 65534) id BB41619A065; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:50:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on petersson.at X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 Received: from [192.168.0.199] (chello084114039092.14.vie.surfer.at [84.114.39.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: andreas) by petersson.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78A4519A063 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:50:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <523066EB.5070302@petersson.at> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:49:47 +0200 From: Andreas Petersson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net References: <796AC330-56EF-43D2-9935-5409824A4F33@godofgod.co.uk> <0F445FFE-FA1A-4A64-9A28-C734E744B5F7@godofgod.co.uk> <522F9EC9.7020008@monetize.io> In-Reply-To: <522F9EC9.7020008@monetize.io> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.8 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1VJjsP-0003aZ-Ex Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:50:38 -0000 This an excellent idea, because i proposed the same thing previously. these bip 39 mnemonics are IMO too hard to remember. using NLP we could generate a gramatically correct sentence out of 128 completely random bits which is possible to remember. information could be encoded in the selection of words but also in the choice of the syntax tree. if i had too much spare time this would be an excellent project. Am 11.09.2013 00:35, schrieb Mark Friedenbach: > For a while I've wanted to combine one of these mnemonic code generators > with an NLP engine to do something like output a short story as the > passphrase, even a humorous onem with the key encoded in the story > itself (remember the gist of the story and that's sufficient to > reconstruct the key).