2018-01-09 19:20 GMT+08:00 Ronald van der Meer via bitcoin-dev <[email protected]>: > 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:) _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
