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From: Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2•sk>
To: timo.hanke@web•de, Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv1@gmx•de>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal to replace BIP0039
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:49:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52880470.2060206@gk2.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131103074052.GJ16611@crunch>

On 03/11/13 08:40, Timo Hanke wrote:
> Trezor picks random s and sends S=s*G to computer, keeping s secret.

That's a really neat trick!

> One question remains: if you only write down the mnemonic how can you be
> sure that it is correct and corresponds to the secret in Trezor?

Right. That's a problem. I'm not sure if this whole cryptomagic is
benefitial at all.

I'd suggest to go the easy way for now, i.e. prove that external entropy
was used while generating the master seed. If the user does not trust
our firmware, he can use his own built one.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol Rusnak <stick@gk2•sk>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-16 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 17:29 thomasV1
2013-10-24 18:09 ` slush
2013-10-25  9:27   ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-24 18:54 ` slush
2013-10-26 15:24   ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-26 20:47     ` slush
2013-10-26 21:30       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-10-31  9:13         ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-31 10:41           ` slush
2013-10-31 11:07             ` Peter Todd
2013-11-02  9:44             ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-03  6:41               ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-03  7:03                 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-03  7:40                   ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-03  8:39                     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-11-04 15:10                       ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-16 23:41                         ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-11-16 23:49                     ` Pavol Rusnak [this message]
2013-11-17  0:42                       ` Timo Hanke
2013-11-17  0:49                         ` Pavol Rusnak
2013-10-31 11:11           ` slush
2013-10-31 11:18             ` slush
2013-11-02 10:10               ` Thomas Voegtlin
2013-10-24 21:55 ` Luke-Jr

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