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@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ BIP-0032 or similar methods.
A mnenomic code or sentence is superior for human interaction compared to the
handling of raw binary or hexidecimal representations of a wallet seed. The
sentence could be written on paper, spoken over the telephone, or memorized as a
brain wallet.
sentence could be written on paper or spoken over the telephone.
This guide meant to be as a way to transport computer-generated randomnes over
human readable transcription. It's not a way how to process user-created
sentences (also known as brainwallet) to wallet seed.
==Generating the mnemonic==
@ -96,6 +99,11 @@ constraints on sentence structure and clients are free to implement their own
wordlists or even whole sentence generators, allowing for flexibility in wordlists
for typo detection or other purposes.
Although using mnemonic not generated by algorithm described in "Generating the
mnemonic" section is possible, this is not advised and software should compute
checksum of the mnemonic sentence using wordlist and issue a warning if it is
invalid.
Described method also provides plausible deniability, because every passphrase
generates a valid seed (and thus deterministic wallet) but only the correct one
will make the desired wallet available.