From 6a3bb51e3fa158e37c739702da3fa64119f55396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slush0 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 20:57:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Removed reference to brainwallet --- bip-0039.mediawiki | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/bip-0039.mediawiki b/bip-0039.mediawiki index a4ae71dd..6fbff6be 100644 --- a/bip-0039.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0039.mediawiki @@ -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.