From: Weiwu Zhang <a@colourful•land>
To: Ronald van der Meer <ronald@vandermeer•frl>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion to remove word from BIP39 English wordlist
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:07:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEvpD62pd_s17VoGw8B+=3_cmMq2cWneAR0MZ_CT_7DqooBnLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31430A55-57AD-4648-8D6D-DE2A45CC013C@vandermeer.frl>
2018-01-09 19:20 GMT+08:00 Ronald van der Meer via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>:
> After reviewing some bitcoin improvement proposals, I noticed that one of the words that can be found on the BIP39 English wordlist is “satoshi”.
> I suggest removing this word from the list so it’s less obvious that it’s a bitcoin seed when found by a malicious third party.
If a malicious third party discovers a word list that look like a
seed, they would try using it as Bitcoin seed first anyway, with or
without finding the word 'satoshi' in it. The security threat is that
a malicious third party may index what they found and test every
occurrence of 'satoshi' for a lead to a seed.
For example, a hard-disk recycling service would add this word to
their salvage tools. Any successfully hacked gmail account will be
'satoshi' tested too.
So I see this as a reasonable improvement:)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 11:20 Ronald van der Meer
2018-01-18 1:07 ` Weiwu Zhang [this message]
2018-01-18 1:14 ` CryptAxe
2018-01-18 6:55 ` Jonathan Sterling
2018-01-18 19:50 ` Alan Evans
2018-01-18 20:49 Matthew Clancy
2018-01-18 21:29 ` Alan Evans
2018-01-23 19:40 ` Ronald van der Meer
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