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From: "Peter D. Gray" <peter@coinkite•com>
To: Ethan Kosakovsky <ethankosakovsky@protonmail•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org"
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC: Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:02:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320200253.GC13916@coinkite.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <_CC9MLKCy5rmooAmR91_34tQxgDiXDJCdY4W6_X6xqDJUiAEuaWBVi8iBaFipx2KGt5_mf5XqFKMfoNgemTPCMgraWt5CVRifUM5iMolxto=@protonmail.com>

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I like this proposal and I see it's value: "One seed to rule them all."

Not hard to implement either.

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 03:44:01PM +0000, Ethan Kosakovsky wrote:
> I would like to present a proposal for discussion and peer review. It aims to solve the problem of "too many seeds and too many backups" due to the many reasons stipulated in the proposal text.
> 
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ethankosakovsky/f7d148f588d14e0bb4f70bb6afc509d0/raw/6da51e837b0e1f1b2b21f3d4cbc2c5a87969ffd5/bip-entropy-from-bip32.mediawiki
> 
> <pre>
>   BIP:
>   Title: Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains
>   Author: Ethan Kosakovsky <ethankosakovsky@protonmail•com>
>   Comments-Summary: No comments yet.
>   Comments-URI:
>   Status: Proposed
>   Type: Standards Track
>   Created: 2020-03-20
>   License: BSD-2-Clause
>            OPL
> </pre>
> 
> ==Abstract==
> 
> This proposal provides a way to derive entropy from a HD keychain path in order to deterministically derive the initial entropy used to create keychain mnemonics and seeds.
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20 15:44 Ethan Kosakovsky
2020-03-20 16:29 ` Pavol Rusnak
2020-03-20 17:34   ` Ethan Kosakovsky
2020-03-20 17:35     ` Ethan Kosakovsky
2020-03-20 20:02 ` Peter D. Gray [this message]
2020-03-21  1:46   ` Christopher Allen
2020-03-21 15:10     ` Ethan Kosakovsky
2020-03-22 11:58 ` Ethan Kosakovsky
2020-03-24  8:07   ` Tim Ruffing
2020-03-25 13:54     ` Adam Back

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