Brainwallet.org Poetry

[keatonatron]

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 

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[TalkingAntColony]

From the source:

Code:

/*
    mnemonic.js : Converts between 4-byte aligned strings and a human-readable
    sequence of words. Uses 1626 common words taken from wikipedia article:
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Contemporary_poetry
    Originally written in python special for Electrum (lightweight Bitcoin client).
    This version has been reimplemented in javascript and placed in public domain.
*/

So it converts every 4 characters to three words from that list.

[keatonatron]

Aha! The only place I didn't think to look 

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)

[threeip]

Aha! The only place I didn't think to look 

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 

[Aleksei Richards]

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