Hi folks, I am working on a wallet in go lang & would like to implement some test vectors.

I have implemented BIP32 test vectors, which covers deriving private & public keys at certain paths for a specific seed.

I see some are available for BIP39 as well but doesn't seem like a proper set, just English & Japanese included in other implementations, not in BIP itself.

My main concern is that I am not able to find any test vectors, right from seed to addresses derived as per BIP44 (or other address formats) or just deriving addresses from private keys?

What would get me the highest grade of testing for correctness of wallet functionality? Any guidance is appreciated.

Hey folks, I am building an open source air-gapped crypto vault, and as an option to not rely on system's entropy to generate random numbers, I am working on offering a "bring your own entropy" option.

This makes the system trustless, as less code about it needs to be reviewed & verified, as opposed to check whether the custom linux OS it works on, isn't acting in bad faith.
Or if you are an "Extremely cautious" user like me, you would like to do this by simply verifying how the coins flip / dice rolls are used as entropy & not worry about anything else as the device is air-gapped and runs an immutable OS without any persistence layer at all.

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My project is all about me exploring how much of a trustless system can be built.

Its my understanding flipping coin or rolling dice 256 times provide sufficient entropy to generate mnemonic, which is at par with what most computers are capable of, if not more.

So, would you be willing to do the boring manual work of flipping coin or rolling dice to record their value in order to use that as entropy?

Don't under-estimate the task. Just doing it once will take 6-10 seconds. Doing that 256 times might take you 25-45 mins.

Twitter poll is at https://twitter.com/ashfame/status/1282671325580910592.

Hi,

I am building an open source air-gapped hardware vault and need opinion of users whether they would be willing to flip coin / roll dice for generating their HD wallet, therefore not requiring to trust the OS’s ability to generate random number. It’s just an alternative option to provide your own entropy for mnemonic phrase generation.

What would be the appropriate place in this forum to post? I have a poll running on twitter, can I use that or should I create it somewhere else?

Thanks!

Reposting the question from BitcoinSE, since didn't get a response there:

I understand not all private keys are usable as they fall outside of Secp256k1, but do they really matter when the master node or path being derived in BIP44 generates a private key which isn't usable as those nodes (keys at that node) are not supposed to hold funds?

Or is it just the actual address (external/internal chain of addresses under an account) that matters as those are the ones supposed to hold funds?

Or hitting a private key outside of Secp256k1 somehow translate into child keys being outside of Secp256k1 as well?