|
Title: Brainwallet.org Poetry Post by: keatonatron on May 28, 2013, 04:25:24 PM Hi all,
I've been playing around with the converters at brainwallet.org--pretty cool. I'm curious about the "poetry" function. I've seen this format used with other services as well as a way to save a secret key that can be used to recover an account, etc. What I can't find is a technical explanation of how the conversion works. Does anyone know? And is the idea behind it simply that it's easier to avoid typos when typing actual words? Thanks 8) Title: Re: Brainwallet.org Poetry Post by: TalkingAntColony on May 28, 2013, 10:46:28 PM From the source:
Code: /* So it converts every 4 characters to three words from that list. Title: Re: Brainwallet.org Poetry Post by: keatonatron on May 29, 2013, 03:23:42 AM Aha! The only place I didn't think to look ;D
Very interesting. This would be an easier way to type in private keys from a paper wallet, but I think it should be standardized or else the word list might change and render all your data useless. (Easy fix--print both the key and the 'easy to type' real word version) Title: Re: Brainwallet.org Poetry Post by: threeip on July 27, 2013, 08:04:16 PM Aha! The only place I didn't think to look ;D Very interesting. This would be an easier way to type in private keys from a paper wallet, but I think it should be standardized or else the word list might change and render all your data useless. (Easy fix--print both the key and the 'easy to type' real word version) The current wordlist and function is here -> http://pastebin.com/4HfuabMb We could make it a standard right now 8) Title: Re: Brainwallet.org Poetry Post by: Aleksei Richards on July 29, 2013, 07:58:10 AM I think it's already a de-facto standard. We're using it on http://carbonwallet.com/
See https://github.com/carbonwallet/carbonwallet.github.io/blob/master/extjs/mnemonic.js |